As you may recall, the Javits funds were discontinued last year. Losing this important national research funding will continue to create negative consequences across the country.

The National Association For Gifted Children is asking you to contact your US Representative and Senators TODAY (March 16) and urge them to support $7.5 million in funding for the Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act*.

Click here for Congressional contact information and a sample message.

*The Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act is the sole federal program dedicated to exploring strategies to identify and serve gifted and talented students, especially those who have been under-represented in gifted education programs. The program, which supported the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented as well as school-based research grants, was de-funded in fiscal year 2011. School districts and teachers across the country have used – and continue to use – the research results generated by the Javits program to support gifted students in the classroom and to develop and improve their gifted education services and programs. It’s critical to gifted and talented students, and those who have not been formally identified as gifted, that the Congress restores the research program so that we can continue developing and disseminating best practices in instruction and identification procedures.

More information: http://www.multibriefs.com/briefs/nagc/members.pdf