Helping gifted minority students reach their potential: Recommendations for change

Describes factors that hold promise for recruiting and retaining minority students in gifted education programs, including having equitable, culturally sensitive screening and identification instruments and procedures; providing minority students with a quality education; addressing problems that in...

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Published in:Peabody journal of education 1997, Vol.72 (3-4), p.201-216
Main Authors: Ford, Donna Y., Baytops, Joy L., Harmon, Deborah A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Ability
Academic Achievement
Academic underachievement
Academically Gifted
Academically gifted students
Advanced Students
Black Students
Cultural Awareness
Cultural diversity
Educational Programs
Elementary Secondary Education
Equal Education
Gifted
Gifted education
Higher Education
Inservice Teacher Education
Minority Group Children
Minority group students
Minority Groups
Multicultural Education
Parent Participation
Part II: Educational Responses to Giftedness
Preservice Teacher Education
Recommendations
Special Education
Student diversity
Student Evaluation
Student Recruitment
Study skills
Teacher Attitudes
Teachers
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Summary:Describes factors that hold promise for recruiting and retaining minority students in gifted education programs, including having equitable, culturally sensitive screening and identification instruments and procedures; providing minority students with a quality education; addressing problems that interfere with minority students' achievement; and better preparing educators in gifted and urban/multicultural education. (SM)
ISSN:0161-956X
1532-7930
DOI:10.1080/0161956X.1997.9681874