ABSTRACT

Sputnik went up on October 4, 1957. By that time, A. Harry Passow had already been at work on the Talented Youth Project (TYP) for three years (Passow, ca. 1991). Established in February 1954 by Harry, the TYP provided the framework for a series of important school studies about bright youth before the space race exploded into a frantic allocation of resources to develop America’s talent. Under the umbrella of the Horace Mann-Lincoln Institute of School Experimentation at Teachers College, the TYP fostered a key collaboration among three individuals in the history and development of the fi eld of gifted education-A. Harry Passow, Miriam L. Goldberg, and Harry’s young research assistant, Abraham J. Tannenbaum.