Differential Syndromes of Giftedness and Curriculum Planning: A Four-Year Follow-Up
ligence Scale for Children (WISC) and (b) the nurturing of their abilities. For each child identified as mentally gifted, the school district in which he was enrolled received $40 per year for special services. Identifying gifted children was a relatively simple matter of screening and testing. The nurturing of their potential, however, posed theoretical, philosophical, and practical problems. One school district, the Manhattan Beach School District, with an elementary school population of 4,800, organized