18 Mar 2014

The Panel with Michele A'Court and Stephen Franks (Part 2)

From Afternoons, 4:35 pm on 18 March 2014

Topics - Wellington is the New Zealand city most workers would like to shift to - but Waikato is where they're the happiest. A Rudolf Steiner school on the Kapiti Coast has been investigated by the Ministry of Education after parents complained that it was teaching racist theories. In 1971, researchers at Johns Hopkins University embarked on an ambitious effort to identify brilliant 12-year-olds and track their education and careers through the rest of their lives. The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, which now includes 5,000 people, would eventually become the world's longest-running longitudinal survey of what happens to intellectually talented children (in math and other areas) as they grow up.

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