A special friend:Adolescent mentors for young, economically disadvantage, potentially gifted students1

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In this article, we describe the mentorship component of Project Synergy, a federally funded project of the Department of Special Education and the Leta Hollingworth Center for the Study and Education of the Gifted at Teachers College, Columbia University. Project Synergy is a research project, the major goals of which are to devise and test ways of identifying potentially gifted, economically disadvantaged young urban children and to provide services to identified children, their parents, and their teachers in order to develop the children's potential for giftedness. The mentorship component of Project Synergy, part of the talent development aspect of the project, is unique in that the mentors are drawn from a school for gifted urban minority middle school students. Three phases of the mentorship program— training, mentoring, and evaluation—are described, conclusions are drawn, and plans for the future are discussed.

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