The present-day school is named after the earlier one, and takes its inspiration from the approach to gifted education that was developed there.
[1] The experiment was led by Leta Stetter Hollingworth, an American psychologist who specialized in education and who is credited with writing the first textbook on gifted children.
Her work also made "emotional education" an important part of the original Speyer School curriculum.
Its practice of teaching debating from Kindergarten onwards was the focus of an article in the Wall Street Journal.
[14] An 11-year-old student at the school published two books about chess[15] and has been featured in the international press[16] and on Good Morning America.