Contents:

• Between The Lines
  Dorothy Knopper

• Music Making and the Well Tempered Life: The importance of music in one's life
  Brian Chung

• Why the Arts matter to Gifted Learners: Venezuela leads the pack in music education for young students
  Joan Smutny

• A Path to Academic Excellence: Integrating arts into the curriculum
  Clare Grizzard, Georgia K. Woener

• Integrating the Arts into School Communities: How one school integrated arts into its summer curriculum
  Dorothy A. Sisk

• Mozart and Today's Student Musician: The Making of a Professional Musician
  Rob Knopper

• Children Gifted in Drawing: Precocious Realists vs. Autism Spectrum Disorder: Similarities and differences between precocious realists and those with autism
  Jennifer E. Drake, Ellen Winner

• The Affective Side:  A Necessity for the Holistic Educatio of Gifted Secondary Students: Fine Arts should be a requirement for high school students
  Jean Strop

• The Water Cooler: Gifted + Arts = We Could Use a Little Help Here!  The importance of the arts in the lives of gifted kids
  Lou Lloyd-Zannini

• Book Bag: The Grand Mosque of Pairs/Hidden on the Mountain
  Two historical examples of ways that good people of many faiths come together to help those in need
  Jerry Flack

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