Nationally, African American students are underrepresented in gifted education programs,
and educators everywhere seek ways to identify more gifted Black students. This article …

Dual language education is a program that combines language minority and language
majority students for instruction through two languages. This book provides the conceptual …

Few school districts in the United States have successfully recruited and retained culturally
diverse students in programs for gifted students. Black, Hispanic, and Native American …

Each year, the United States witnesses significant changes in the demographics of its
citizens. Accordingly, schools—and the students we teach—are also changing. With such …

The Elementary and Secondary School Survey data and Civil Rights Data Collection of the
Office for Civil Rights (OCR) were analyzed to describe the issue of overrepresentation of …

Donna Y. Ford is a Professor of Education at the Ohio State University where she teaches
courses in gifted education. Donna's research focuses on recruiting and retaining diverse …

The underrepresentation of minority children in programs for the gifted has been a public
issue for many years, but has achieved no resolution. Given recent court decisions against …

& Kelly, 1997). Likewise, if teachers do not understand that some cultures come from an oral
tradition, they may neither recognize nor appreciate the strengths of students who prefer …

This chapter reviews the foundational principles that inform the standard on identification
and all of the NAGC Pre-K–Grade 12 Gifted Programming Standards. Student outcomes …

How can a gifted student also be an underachiever? By implicit definition gifted students are
those who have developed high levels of intelligence and consistently perform at these high …