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1	Video/Audio Tapes from conferences
2	Gifted Resources Publications Page
3	Roeper Review - A Journal on Gifted Education
4	Autonomous Learning Publications & Specialists
5	The Critical Thinking Community
6	Gifted Children Monthly
7	Publications from the Center for Talented Youth - Johns Hopkins University
8	Prufrock Press--The Leading Publisher for the Education of the Gifted
9	Libraries Unlimited and Teacher Ideas Press
10	Lifelong Advocates: If not you, who? Dr. Julia Link Roberts and Tracy Ford Inman note that effective advocates develop as parents learn on behalf of their children and that the end of advocacy due to the individual children's need, or graduation is a loss to one's grandchildren and all GT youth.
11	NAGC on Peer Relationships/Social Skills/Bullies Being "out of step" with age mates can cause challenges with peer relations. Parents who are sensitive, aware, and become knowledgeable about the situation can help.
12	NCES' College Navigator College Navigator is a free consumer information tool designed to help students, parents, high school counselors, and others get information postsecondary institutions in the United States. It offers a wide range of information, such as programs offered, retention and graduation rates, prices, aid available, degrees awarded, campus safety, and accreditation. The site is run by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.

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GT Organizations

Jeffco Public School District GT Facts

Some information and links about Gifted and Talented in Jefferson County Public Schools:

Advocacy

The Lobato Case

On December 9th Judge Sheila Rappaport ruled in favor of the Lobato Trial plaintiffs, finding that Colorado is not complying with the constitutional right of every child to a "thorough and uniform system of free public schools."

Just for Fun

Food for Thought:
Crows and parrots are both very intelligent. A study was done to to compare how birds of both species dealt with the identical problems. The results provide insight as to how body types, environments and even "personality" impact the ways intelligence reveals itself.