Once a week, I was quietly pulled out of class, put on a bus, and taken to a small sunlit building where the work felt different : harder, faster, strange. This episode traces the arc of U.S. gifted education, how intelligence has been tied to eugenics, and the conspiracies surrounding the G.A.T.E. to CIA pipeline.

Some Further Reading

https://www.stanford-binet.org/

https://utsic.utoronto.ca/life-and-times-of-the-stanford-binet-intelligence-scale/

stanfordbinettest.com/history-stanford-binet-test

https://www.verywellmind.com/history-of-intelligence-testing-2795581

https://irp.nih.gov/catalyst/22/5/from-the-annals-of-nih-history

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/01/assessment

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-vexing-legacy-of-lewis-terman

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6060660/

https://www.nagc.org/myths-about-gifted-students

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78-06365A000200060019-5.pdf

https://2009-2017.state.gov/m/dghr/flo/c21956.htm

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/much-more-than-common-core/201608/the-embarrassing-secret-about-gifted-programs

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/articles/gifted-and-talented-programs-what-parents-should-know