11 Facts About Julian Stanley

Julian Cecil Stanley was an American psychologist.

Julian Stanley was an advocate of accelerated education for academically gifted children.

Julian Stanley founded the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, as well as a related research project, the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, whose work has, since 1980, been supplemented by the Julian C Stanley Study of Exceptional Talent, which provides academic assistance to gifted children.

Julian Stanley retired as Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, although reportedly worked up until one week before his death in 2005 at age 87 years.

When Julian Stanley was a young math and science teacher he became fascinated with intellectual talent while taking a "tests and measurements" course at the University of Georgia.

Julian Stanley decided to test him using the SAT and found that it was a much more effective and reliable way to test for both advanced math and verbal skills and reasoned that such a method could be used to identify more of these high ability students, especially if a systematic approach was taken.

Julian Stanley was invested in helping them to further their education by devising and offering many different acceleration programs and classes.

Up until the time of Julian Stanley's study, there was the prevalent idea that cultural assimilation, stemming from the melting pot ideology featured prominently within the United States' immigration policies, was a factor in educators veering away from providing acceleration opportunities for gifted students.

The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth continues at Vanderbilt University today, with former colleagues of Julian Stanley working to complete a fifty-year longitudinal study of gifted individuals.

In 1994, Julian Stanley was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal, which declared the consensus of the signing scholars on intelligence research.

Julian Stanley wrote or edited 13 books, produced over 500 professional articles, received two honorary doctorates and numerous awards, including:.