My daughter had been offered the opportunity to participate in a program run at Johns Hopkins, called the Center for Talented Youth. At first, I thought this was just some scam -- what parent isn't willing to believe that their child is especially talented? -- but I began to think that, while it's not a fast track to the Nobel Prize, it's still a decent program to motivate kids. We offered our daughter the change to participate in their summer program, and she said no. Fine.
Comes now an offer from the same people to subscribe to their magazine about the program, full of motivational material, articles about bright kids doing interesting things, all of that. Well...maybe. So I go to their website to check it out, and check on 'explore current issue'. There are about seventeen articles listed, and they do sound interesting. But then I noticed that of the articles listed, only two are actually clickable -- and they're pretty much the least interesting ones there.
So I wonder: is it simply that this program just doesn't want to give free access to material they worked on and developed? Or is it that that other material really isn't as useful as the title would lead one to believe?
I didn't subscribe.
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