Each of the four issues of the newsletter of the Texas Association for the Gifted focuses on a theme: leadership, evaluation and assessment, curriculum issues, and accountability issues. Issues usually contain theme-related major articles, columns by the Association's president and executive director, a column examining related research, answers to questions, and book reviews. Major articles include: "Leadership and the Gifted in the 21st Century" (Frances Karnes and Jane Chauvin); "Teaching Children To Lead" (Mary Seay); "Understanding and Encouraging Leadership Giftedness" (Dorothy Sisk); "First Steps: Creating a Quality Leadership Program" (Laura Phillips Mackay); "Gifted Hispanic Girls: Education, Support, and Encouragement" (Cynthia Shade); "The Rationale and Validation of the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking" (E. Paul Torrance); "Gifted Program Evaluation" (Ernesto Bernal); "Parent Assessment of Giftedness: Using Portfolios" (Bertie Kingore); "Educating with the Harkness Table" (Tyleer C. Tingley); "Using Testing and Public Information To Make the Case for Gifted and Talented Students" (Chrys Dougherty); "Appropriate Identification Criteria: A Self Study" (Bertie Kingore); "Clues from Brain Research for Challenging Gifted Learners" (Barbara Clark); "Teaching beyond the Average" (Robert Schultz and Margaret Price); "Science, Service and the Gifted Learner" (Mary Nied Phillips); "Future Problem Solving: Improving Skills" (Kent Hutton); "Gifted Instruction Goes Dot-Com" (Helen Teague); "Internet Resources" (Helen Teague); "Performance Standards for Gifted Students" (Evelyn Hiatt and Linda Phemister); "Accountability for Gifted Students: Burden or Opportunity?" (Tonya Moon and Carolyn Callahan); "Standards of Learning and Gifted Education: Goodness of Fit" (Joyce VanTassel-Baska); and "Emerging Giftedness for the LEP Student" (Pamela M. Cooper). (Individual articles contain references.) (DB)