A CTY afternoon activity at LMU in Los Angeles

The Center for Talented Youth (CTY) is a gifted education program for school-age children, founded in 1979 by Dr. Julian Stanley at Johns Hopkins University. It was initially a research study of the rate at which gifted children can learn new material and became the first program of its kind to identify academically talented youths and provide learning opportunities. CTY offers numerous programs around the world and online but is best known for its fast-paced Summer Programs, which are held on many university campuses throughout the United States and serve over 9,000 students each year.^[1] CTY is an accredited school for grades 5 to 12 by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The three-letter acronym CTY may refer to: Console teleTYpe Center for Talented Youth County CTY is the ICAO airline designator for Cryderman Air Service, United States Category: ... Image File history File links CTY_Activity1. ... Image File history File links CTY_Activity1. ... Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic Jesuit university in Los Angeles, California, USA. The University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and one of five Marymount institutions of higher education. ... Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented. ... Dr. Julian Cecil Stanley, (1918-2005) was a psychologist, statistician, and educator who developed programs to systematically identify and train academically gifted young people, including the Center for Talented Youth (CTY), and the Study of Exceptional Talent (SET). ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. ... Accreditation is a process by which a facilitys services and operations are examined by a third-party accrediting agency to determine if applicable standards are met. ... The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, peer based, non-profit association dedicated to the educational excellence and improvement through peer evaluation and accreditation. ...

Other names

CTY has held several previous names. Dr. Stanley's research groups, the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) and the Program for Verbally Gifted Youth (PVGY), were combined in the early 1980s to form the Office of Talent Identification and Development (OTID). OTID was renamed Center for Talented Youth, which was expanded to Center for the Advancement of Academically Talented Youth (CAATY) for a brief period. Later, CTY became the Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth (IAAY). However, most students, parents, schools, and staff members preferred to call it CTY, and the name was changed back in 1999.^[2]

Talent search

Generally from October to February of each year, CTY's Talent Search recruits highly-able elementary and middle school students (who have scored at or above the 95th percentile on in-grade standardized tests) to qualify for CTY's academic programs.^[3] Applicants then take a standardized test that is above their grade level, beyond the ability of most children their age. A percentile is the value of a variable below which a certain percent of observations fall. ... A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. ...

• Students in the 2nd to 4th grades take the School and College Ability Test (SCAT) at the Elementary level, administered by either CTY or Prometric.
• Students in the 5th and 6th grades take the SCAT at the Intermediate and Secondary levels, respectively. Previously the PLUS test was used.
• Students in the 7th to 11th grades take the SAT or ACT, administered by The College Board.

To qualify for CTY Summer Programs, a 7th grade student must score at roughly the 50th percentile achieved by graduating high school seniors. Younger students must pass somewhat lower thresholds based on grade level; applicants above 7th grade face correspondingly higher cutoffs. Students in 5th grade and above may optionally take CTY's Spatial Test Battery; high scorers on the STB face slightly lower SCAT or SAT requirements. CTY has considered other entrance criteria several times over the years, but found that SAT (et al.) remained the best predictor of student success in CTY courses. The SCAT is a standardized test that measures math and verbal reasoning abilities. ... Prometric is a U.S. company that possesses significant market share in the test administration industry. ... The PLUS test is a test distributed by Johns Hopkins University. ... For other uses, see SAT (disambiguation). ... The ACT® test is a standardized achievement examination for college admissions in the United States produced by ACT, Inc. ... The College Board is a not-for-profit examination board in the United States that was formed in the nineteenth century as the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB). ...

CTY has another summer program, the Center for Academic Advancement (CAA), for gifted students in grades 7 to 11 who are in the top 2% of their age group. CAA is similar to CTY in most respects, aside from lower SAT score requirements and slightly less rigorous curricula. CTY Distance Education courses have test score requirements similar (but not necessarily identical) to those of the summer programs. The Center for Academic Advancement (CAA) is a gifted education program, part of the the Johns Hopkins Universitys Center for Talented Youth (CTY) summer programs. ...

CTY course eligibility is based on the math and/or verbal subscores, depending on the course's subject matter (e.g. science courses mainly require math, writing courses require verbal). Over 80000 students are tested each year, more than half of whom qualify for some portion of CTY's course offerings.

CTY Talent Search officially operates in Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York , Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Students from other states are officially served by sister programs such as Duke University's Talent Identification Program or Northwestern's Center for Talent Development; however, they do not offer as many programs or sites as CTY, so cross-registrations are allowed. Students from every state, and dozens of countries, participate in CTY programs each year. For other uses, see Alaska (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) English Spoken language(s) English 74. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Official language(s) English Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport[3] Largest metro area Hartford Metro Area[2] Area  Ranked 48th  - Total 5,543[4] sq mi (14,356 km²)  - Width 70 miles (113 km)  - Length 110 miles (177 km)  - % water 12. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Delaware. ... Official language(s) English, Hawaiian Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Area  Ranked 43rd  - Total 10,931 sq mi (29,311 km²)  - Width n/a miles (n/a km)  - Length 1,522 miles (2,450 km)  - % water 41. ... Official language(s) None (English and French de facto) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 39th  - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²)  - Width 210 miles (338 km)  - Length 320 miles (515 km)  - % water 13. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Largest metro area Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 101 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area  Ranked 46th  - Total 9,350 sq mi (24,217 km²)  - Width 68 miles (110 km)  - Length 190 miles (305 km)  - % water 4. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... This article is about the state. ... Official language(s) (none)[1] Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 9th  - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 2. ... Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Largest metro area Delaware Valley Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... For the capital city of the United States, see Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) English Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Largest metro area Charleston metro area Area  Ranked 41st  - Total 24,244 sq mi (62,809 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 240 miles (385 km)  - % water 0. ... ... The Talent Identification Program (TIP) is a gifted education program based at Duke University. ...

Summer programs

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Johns Hopkins University's main campus.

The Summer Programs are CTY's hallmark and its most visible public face. Many people use the term "CTY" as a synonym for the 7th to 11th grade CTY summer program. Image File history File links Acap. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ...

CTY sites typically host a few hundred students each, divided into a few dozen course sections, for one or two three-week sessions. Separate sites and courses are offered for each level of students (grades 2-4, grades 5-6, older students CTY, and CAA). Sites for the youngest group are commuter programs; students attend only in the daytime. All of the other sites are residential programs where most students live in college dormitories during the session; a few in the local area may opt to commute.

It is important to note the influence of student culture at the residential sites. Each site has its own unique community, and many students chose specific sites based on what they know of the social histories of the site. Skidmore, for example, is known to be the most liberal in attitude, even though all sites are quite liberal. At this site the there are legends such as Becca Dorn and Jon Good. Stories of these students are passed down to every "generation" of campers. Becca is known for the infiltration of an off-limits building. Jon Good is known for his slogan "Jon Good Loves You" to show goodwill. He was also a key figure in the "Free Lee-Kai" movement, when students protested against a student being kept away from friends the day he was being sent home for rule infractions.

One very important aspect of every CTY-er's experience is the weekly dances. There is a canon of music played that only varies slightly by each site. For example, almost every site ends the dance with the last slow song, "Stairway to Heaven", and the final group song "American Pie". The Lancaster site adds "Leaving on a Jet Plane". There have been near-riots when RAs tried to prolong the dance by playing any song after this. The last four songs traditionally played at each site are Nightswimming by REM, Istanbul (not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants, and the aforementioned Stairway to Heaven and American Pie. During American Pie, it is CTY tradition to chant "Die Die Die Die Live Live Live Live Sex Sex Sex Sex More More More More" after Don McLean sings "This'll be the day that I die." Nightswimming is a song by the band R.E.M.. It appears on their 1992 album Automatic for the People and was released as a single in 1993. ... R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980 by Bill Berry (drums), Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass guitar), and Michael Stipe (vocals). ... Istanbul (Not Constantinople) is a swing-style song, written by Jimmy Kennedy and Nat Simon. ... This article is about the musical group. ...

This is just one example of the strong sense of tradition at every CTY site. Every site has its own unique culture and traditions, as was said, but each site holds to them dearly. Many of these traditions transcend geography, though, as in the case of dance music and things like "lanyard-swinging" and terms like "mandatory fun" for planned activities. No student goes to CTY for more than a few hours without knowing most of the traditions and history of the site they're at. This adds multitudes to the bonding social experience, and the details of the rituals and bondings are incredibly intricate (who a student dances with for specific songs is very important, for example).

RAs have the difficult job in these settings. They have to know the history of the site (and often work at sites where they were students). They also have to be a safe person for students to talk with, while respecting necessary boundaries of an authority-student relationship. Students often become attached in various ways to RAs and even teachers, and sometimes stay friendly with them years after camp ends. During the session, though, boundaries are taken seriously.

At all sites, there is an intense bond between students. The fact that for three weeks their world is insulated with other students, who are often ostracized in home schools for academic achievement, leads to a high comfort level. In 1999, at the Skidmore Site, the term "I CTY you" was coined. It refers to the immediate respect and love the students have for each other, beyond normal platonic love.

CTY sites

CTY summer programs for the 7th grade and above are held at the following sites:

• Franklin & Marshall College - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, Maryland
• Dickinson College - Carlisle, Pennsylvania
• Hawaii Pacific University - Kaneohe, Hawaii
• Loyola Marymount University - Los Angeles, California
• Princeton University - Princeton, New Jersey (Entering 10th-12th grades only)
• Siena College - Loudonville, New York
• Skidmore College - Saratoga Springs, New York

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• Moravian College - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Washington College - Chestertown, Maryland
• Stanford University - Palo Alto, California
• Mount Holyoke College - South Hadley, Massachusetts
• California Lutheran University - Thousand Oaks, California
• St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School - Alexandria, Virginia
• The Windward School - Los Angeles, California
• Garrison Forest School - Owings Mills, Maryland
• Maranatha High School - Pasadena, California
• Sandy Spring Friends School - Sandy Spring, Maryland

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Other summer programs

CTY has recently begun to hold residential programs for students in 10th to 12th grade. Six advanced courses are offered at Princeton University. This site has the same entry requirements as CTY for 7th to 11th graders; some courses also have prerequisites.^[4] In addition, the Civic Leadership Institute (CLI) (grades 10-12) hosts 80 students a year. An alliance between Northwestern's Civic Education Project and CTY with the same academic requirements as the Center for Academic Advancement, the CLI service-learning program was hosted last year at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... The Center for Academic Advancement (CAA) is a gifted education program, part of the the Johns Hopkins Universitys Center for Talented Youth (CTY) summer programs. ... Located in Baltimore, Maryland, the Peabody Conservatory of Music (or just The Peabody) is one of the most prestigious musical institutions in the world, and also the first conservatory in America. ...

CTY International

CTY partners with numerous educational institutions around the world. For the most part, their programs and summer sites are hosted independently of CTY.^[5]

• CTY Bermuda is operated by Bermuda's Institute for Talented Students in affiliation with CTY.
• CTY China is a CTY sub-unit at the University of Nanjing, exclusively available to high school students.^[6]
• CTY España (CTYS) is an accredited center of Instituto Cervantes.^[7]
• CTY Ireland (CTYI) is operated by Dublin City University.^[8]
• CTY Mexico is a CTY sub-unit at the Universidad de las Américas, in the city of Puebla, available to grades 7-10.^[9]
• CTY Thailand is operated by Mae Fah Luang University.
• The United Kingdom's National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY) was founded on CTY's program model. Each year approximately three students from the United States and three students from the UK switch places; however, in 2007 it was 7 students.

Dodgeball being played at CTY (also at LMU in Los Angeles)

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Student evaluations

CTY students are not given traditional letter grades. Instead, they are given page-long written evaluations composed by the instructor with input from the teaching assistant. The evaluations are signed by the instructor and sometimes by the teaching assistant and must be approved individually by the Site Director. The CTY Instructor's Handbook suggests writing three types of evaluations which correspond roughly to grades of "high pass," "pass," and "low pass."

These specific terms are not used, since they suggest traditional grading, but instructors generally follow the suggestions of the Handbook and write three boilerplate evaluations. Students are ranked into three groups and receive a corresponding evaluation to which personalized remarks specific to the student are added, i.e. "Your story, Motel Saturday Night showed both biting satire and keen understanding of U.S. oil policy." The difference between the three types of evaluations may be subtle.

Students taking the Investigations in Engineering class may opt to obtain college credit from the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is a highly regarded engineering school in the United States. ...

Distance Education

CTY also offers Distance Education courses, with the same eligibility standards as the Summer Programs. CTY's Distance Education program began in 1983 with the Writing Tutorials through postal mail; that course has since migrated to email, and many other courses have been added. CTY now serves approximately 7500 distance students per year, and will likely surpass the Summer Program's head count at some point. Additional distance students can be enrolled by adding an instructor and a computer or two, whereas summer sites are rarely added or expanded. // Distance Education is a field of expertise exploring situations in which the learner and the teacher are separated in time, space or both. ...

Students usually receive assignments through the Internet and turn in their work the same way. The most common examples are by email and through a website, although many also use CD-ROMs and/or downloaded files. CTY's online course offerings have expanded from math and writing into many subject areas, including economics, foreign language, and the physical sciences. Some courses, such as writing, require students to complete an assignment by a deadline before receiving a new assignment. Other courses, such as accelerated math, are individually paced; each student may complete as much material as they can within the given enrollment period.^[10]

Other CTY programs

• Family Academic Programs, also known as Conferences, are collections of seminars and hands-on activities in various locations around the world.
• The Study of Exceptional Talent is a longitudinal study of Talent Search participants who scored 700 or above on the math or verbal section of the SAT before age 13, such as Terence Tao.
• Imagine is an educational magazine aimed at middle and high school students.
• Center for Academic Advancement is a program nearly identical to CTY's summer programs, but with a lower minimum SAT score requirement.

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Publicity

CTY was featured in a July 2004 article in The New Yorker magazine entitled "Nerd Camp", and Session 1 of 2005 at Lancaster is the setting for the upcoming (2008) movie production, also entitled Nerd Camp. This movie is being written by Adam Stzykiel, and is being produced by Nickelodeon.^{[citation needed]} For other uses, see New Yorker. ... This article is about the TV channel. ...

CTY was also shown in an hour long CNN special on gifted children. The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ...

CTY alumni and students

CTY is home to many students of great academic ability. Achievements and recognitions for CTY students include:

• 6 of 32 American Recipients of the 2006 Rhodes Scholarship.^[11]
• 26 Rhodes Scholarship winners since the year 2000.
• numerous top finishers in the Intel Science Talent Search, including the first-place winner in 2005.
• numerous award winners in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, including a grand prize winner in 2007.
• 2 winners of the Siemens Westinghouse Competition.
• 2 contestants in the 2006 National Geographic Bee national-level competition.
• At least one participant in Scripps National Spelling Bee.
• numerous participants in the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, including winners Graham Gilmer and David Walter.

Many CTY alumni go on to attend Ivy League and top tier universities: MIT,^[12] Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, the California Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and Stanford University.^[13] Rhodes House in Oxford, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. ... The Intel Science Talent Search (ISTS) is a prestigious research-based science competition in the United States primarily for high school students. ... The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is the largest pre-college scientific event in the world. ... After Siemens AG purchased Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1997, it was under the impression that the prestigious Westinghouse Science Talent Search (now the Intel Science Talent Search) would be theirs as well. ... A 1999 National Geography Bee contestant with his chaperones. ... The Jeopardy! Teen Tournament is one of the traditional tournaments held each season on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! Contestants in this tournament are primarily high school students, and between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. ... For other uses, see Ivy League (disambiguation). ... “MIT” redirects here. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational research university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Northwestern University (NU) is a selective private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university with campuses located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois. ... Stanford redirects here. ...

See also

• Johns Hopkins University
• Dr. Julian C. Stanley
• Centre for the Talented Youth of Ireland
• Rocky Mountain Talent Search, University of Denver
• Talent Identification Program, Duke University

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References

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External links

• CTY Official Website
• RealCTY (Wiki CTY site)
• Post-CTY Depression: Alumni site (replaced CTY Members)