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March 22, 2005... IN 1993, THE U.S. DEPARTMENT Education proposed its most recent definition of giftedness. This definition was groundbreaking, because it represents the most proactive, inclusive, student-centered, and humanistic definition, thus far. According to the definition, children and youth with...

Applying gifted education pedagogy to total talent development for all students.
March 22, 2005... Everyone has a stake in good schools because schools create and recreate a successful modern society. Unfortunately, traditional methods of schooling can fail to bring about schools as places for developing the broadest and richest experiences imaginable for creating talent in the young. The...

Gifted programs and services: what are the nonnegotiables?
March 22, 2005... This article focuses on the "nonnegotiables" of gifted programs and services, emphasizing the importance of appropriately differentiated curriculum, instruction, materials, and assessment procedures. Differentiation is discussed in the context of providing acceleration and grouping as basic...

Identifying gifted students from underrepresented populations.
March 22, 2005... The identification of gifted and talented students from those populations that are underrepresented in programs for the gifted (minorities, children from low socioeconomic status environments, students with limited English speaking ability) is a problem that needs to be examined as the...

Identification concerns and promises for gifted students of diverse populations.
March 22, 2005... Classes for gifted students have continued to lack a representative number of diverse, minority students commensurate with their numbers in the population. The concern for this population of students has generated much discussion about why there has been so much difficulty in identifying...