Julian Stanley

Who was Julian Stanley?

Julian Cecil Stanley was an American psychologist, an educator, and an advocate of accelerated education for academically gifted children. He 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. Stanley was also widely known for his book, coauthored with Donald Campbell, on the design of educational research. Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs for Research remains a classic in the field.