Download or read book Nurturing Talent in High School written by Laurence J. Coleman and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating chronicle of the lives of academically talented and gifted adolescents living in a special residential public high school. The author, who lived as a resident in the school's dormitory, provides rare insights on how environment and potential talent interact inside a school to impact identity, talent, and advanced development. By exploring the special context of the school, this volume: shows how the combination of rigorous academics and living with other talented children can create a high energy environment that accelerates the pace of development, although many students may be unprepared to keep pace, they do; examines in-depth issues of equity and excellence, status, and identity; depicts a high school where equity and excellence co-exist and offers an explanation for this unusual phenomenon in American high schools; offers valuable information that can be applied to a variety of gifted and talented programs and other specialized learning environments; and exemplifies a distinctive dedication to qualitative research methods, setting a new standard for conducting such research.