The Speyer School
The Speyer School (1935-1941), was started within a building at Columbia's Teachers College, and named after financier James Speyer in 1902. The Speyer School became famous between 1935-39 when it was used a "laboratory" to study how children perform when separated by educational ability. There were seven classrooms with 175 students, which had an average IQ on the Stanford Binet test of between 75-90 and two classrooms with students that tested at the level of 130+ on the same IQ test.[1]
The experiment was led by Leta Stetter Hollingworth, an American psychologist who specialized in education and who is credited with creating the term "gifted children."[2] The results of the several studies conducted by Hollingworth dispelled many myths about exceptional children and suggested that many exceptionally gifted children suffer adjustment problems due to two factors: inept treatment by adults and lack of intellectual challenge. Her work also made “emotional education” an important part of the original Speyer School curriculum.[3]
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- ^ America's First Gifted Program. Retrieved from https://www.rfwp.com/samples/americasfirstgifted_dec11samplepages.pdf
- ^ "Leta Hollingworth: Birthmother of PG - Gifted Development Center". www.gifteddevelopment.com.
- ^ Plucker, J.A.(ed.). (2003). Human intelligence: Historical influences, current Controversies, Teaching Resources. Retrieved from http://www.intelltheory.com/
- Columbia University