The Founder of Gifted-Child Education

Klein, Ann G.
Stanley, Julian C.
Brody, Linda E.

ANN G. KLEIN, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire.
JULIAN C. STANLEY, Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, 2701 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. E-mail: [email protected]
LINDA E. BRODY, Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University, 2701 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. E-mail: [email protected]

PsycCRITIQUES 49(6):p 729-731, December 2004. | DOI: 10.1037/004858

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 2004, Vol 49(6), 729–731. Review of book A Forgotten Voice: A Biography of Leta Stetter Hollingworth by Ann G. Klein (see record 2002-06695-000). This is a most interesting, well-written, carefully researched story about a truly remarkable woman who rose from a sod hut on the Nebraska prairie through a oneroom school and graduation from the University of Nebraska, Phi Beta Kappa, at age 20 to found the giftededucation movement and become a rather urbane professor in New York City. It is extremely well written and admirably depicts its subject in the context of her times and background. Like most rather brief biographies, it suggests topics for a second volume. Leta Stetter Hollingworth was, indeed, the brilliant founder of special provisions for intellectually talented youth. As Ann Klein makes clear and extremely interesting, Hollingworth's work has had an enduring effect. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)