Public Policy in Gifted Education

by James J. Gallagher

• ISBN13: 9781412904377
• ISBN10: 1412904374
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-11
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

This call-to-arms focuses on what must be done to keep the gifted child movement alive and well.

Table of Contents

About the Editors

Series Introduction - Sally M. Reis

Introduction to Public Policy in Gifted Education - James J. Gallagher

1. The Reform Movement and the Quiet Crisis in Gifted Education - Joseph S. Renzulli, Sally M. Reis

2. Unthinkable Thoughts: Education of Gifted Students - James J. Gallagher

3. Perennial Debates and Tacit Assumptions in the Education of Gifted Children - Laurence J. Coleman, Michael D. Sanders, and Tracy L. Cross

4. Perceptions of Educational Reform by Educators Representing Middle Schools, Cooperative Learning, and Gifted Education - James J. Gallagher, Mary Ruth Coleman, and Susanne Nelson

5. The Effects of the Elimination of Gifted and Talented Programs on Participating Students and Their Parents - Jeanne H. Purcell

6. Precocious Reading Ability: What Does It Mean? - Nancy Ewald Jackson

7. Contributions of Gifted Education to General Education In a Time of Change - Carol Ann Tomlinson and Carolyn M. Callahan

8. Are Teachers of the Gifted Specialists? A Landmark Decision on Employment Practices in Special Education for the Gifted - Joseph S. Renzulli

9. "Being a Teacher": Emotions and Optimal Experience While Teaching Gifted Children - Laurence J. Coleman

10. For the Good of Humankind: Matching the Budding Talent with a Curriculum of Conscience - Carolyn R. Cooper

11. Will the Gifted Child Movement Be Alive and Well in 1990? - Joseph S. Renzulli

Index