America hates its gifted kids..what? The term gifted children was first used in 1869 by Francis Galton.
He referred to adults who demonstrated exceptional talent in some area
as gifted, for example, a gifted chemist. Children could inherit the
potential to become a gifted adult, and Galton referred to these
children as gifted children. Lewis Terman
expanded Galton's view of gifted children to include high IQ. In the
early 1900s, he began...
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