Public Policy in Gifted Education [Paperback]

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

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

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