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Dr. VanTassel-Baska was the founder of the Midwest Talent Search and then the director of that project and the Center for Talent Development from its founding in 1982 until 1987 when she left to become an endowed chair in gifted education at the College of William and Mary. She shares, "My desire to see highly gifted students identified and served was a high priority for my founding of the program. I was also interested in using the data to find more low-income students who were promising, deliberately lowering the cutoff score to 95% for eligibility. Moreover, the project allowed me to bring together eight states in the Midwest to collaborate on related issues in gifted education and to involve institutions of higher education in the efforts.
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