Sputnik was launched in October, 1957; a year later, I became a «Sputnik Kid» who was brought daily to the high school in the early morning, where I took a special algebra class, before spending the rest of the day at my middle school.
The success that Grant students have experienced with the CREATE model has been documented from 2007 — 2009, during which time I taught algebra to the Special Day Class and general population.