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Kathi
Kearney, M.A.
Ed., is the founder
of the Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children, a national
resource and support network for exceptionally gifted children
and their families. She was an instructor
in talented and gifted education at Iowa State University
in Ames, Iowa for several years and is now on staff with the
Gifted Development Center in Denver, CO. Kathi has worked
with gifted children as a teacher
and administrator
in a wide variety of settings, urban and rural, in public,
private, religious, and home schools. She is the Past
Chair
of the Conceptual Foundations Division of the National Association
for Gifted Children (NAGC). She has contributed a wealth
of scholarly
articles to
the field of Gifted Education on such topics as home schooling,
assessment, the highly gifted child, rural and distance learning,
minority groups in gifted education, and Leta Hollingworth's
work on children with IQ scores above 180. A staunch
advocate for the Stanford Binet LM, Kathi's ideas have been
incorporated into the 5th edition of that instrument.
She conducted a study with homeschoolers during the summer
of 2001, to include this group in the sample population of
the Stanford Binet V
Standardization Test. As the leading
authority on
home schooling highly gifted children, Kathi has amassed numerous
resources for home schooling families. She is
also the editor
of the Highly Gifted Children journal. Well-rounded
in the field of gifted education, Kathi speaks from the solid
ground of having "been there." Her tremendous knowledge
of the field is imparted with the comfortable air of a friend:
approachable, accepting and ready to assist.
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