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The phenomenon of excellence, talent and giftedness has been a recurring concern in most education systems. As early as in 1868, William Torrey Harris (1835–1909), superintendent of public schools for St. Louis, instituted the earliest systematic efforts in public schools to educate gifted students (Jolly 2009).
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Rasmussen, A., Ydesen, C. (2019). Concluding Discussion: Talent Agendas and their Educational Implications. In: Cultivating Excellence in Education. Educational Governance Research, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33354-6_9
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