Better Serving Gifted Students of Poverty

The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) has just published the proceedings of their recent conference on high potential learners of poverty. The book is called "Overlooked Gems: A National Perspective on Low-Income Promising Learners" and includes chapters by Donna Ford, Alexinia Baldwin and Paula Olszewski-Kibilius.

To download or order a free copy of "Overlooked Gems," go to www.nagc.org and click on "New at NAGC: Conference Proceedings."

Also on the NAGC website, a brief article by Paul Slocumb and Ruby Payne entitled "Identifying and Nurturing the Gifted Poor". Slocumb and Payne are the authors of "Removing the Mask: Giftedness in Poverty."

Previous post on academically talented MMSD students of color and poverty: http://www.schoolinfosystem.org/archives/2006/01/theyre_all_rich.php

Article on the negative effects of detracking, especially for high achieving students of color and poverty (cited by U.W. Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies Adam Gamoran, Ph.D., in his chapter "Classroom Organization and Instructional Quality"): "If Tracking is Bad, Is Detracking Better?" by J. E. Rosenbaum (American Educator, 1999).

Posted by Laurie Frost at February 25, 2007 2:08 PM
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