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Silverman, Linda, Ed. – Understanding Our Gifted, 1990
This document consists of six issues (all of volume 2) of a newsletter subtitled "Dedicated to Helping Gifted Children Reach their Full Potential". These issues deal with all aspects of parenting and educating gifted children. Major articles include: "Re-examining the Concept of Underachievement" (Joanne Rand Whitmore);…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adolescents, Child Rearing, Elementary Secondary Education
Jensema, Corinne K., Ed. – Directions, 1982
This issue of "Directions," a publication for updating academic, professional, career, and research activities, contains thirteen articles focusing on the education of hearing impaired children with additional disabilities. The following authors and titles are represented: "Multihandicapped Hearing-Impaired Students--Problems in Identification and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cognitive Processes, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Deaf Blind
Download full textIUME Briefs, 1992
Mentoring is now a very popular, but loosely defined, feature of many programs for youth. The heart of mentoring is the relationship between the youth and the mentor, but little is actually known about this relationship. Mentoring should not be limited to at-risk youth, since many average students or underachievers from stable backgrounds may…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, At Risk Persons, Cultural Differences
Gubbins, E. Jean, Ed. – NRC G/T Newsletter, 1992
This newsletter focuses on six Year 1 research projects associated with the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT). The updates address: "Regular Classroom Practices With Gifted Students: Findings from the Classroom Practices Survey" (Francis X. Archambault, Jr. and others); "The Classroom Practices Study:…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices
Lockwood, Anne Turnbaugh – Focus in Change, 1993
This theme issue presents a variety of viewpoints on the topic of educational programs for gifted and talented students, in three papers by Anne Turnbaugh Lockwood. The first paper, "Beyond the Golden Chromosome," reviews the ideas of Joseph S. Renzulli concerning the definition of giftedness, use of the label of gifted, the need for…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Definitions, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Albright, Leonard – 1979
Intended as a primer for administrative action, this booklet gives the vocational adminstrator some basic guidelines and strategies for managing vocational programs and services for handicapped students and clarifies key concepts. The five sections each address one of the major concerns of an administrator: identifying students with handicaps, the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Responsibility, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Research Connections in Special Education, 2000
This issue describes how researchers are studying ways to reduce the overrepresentation of students from minority backgrounds in special education. It begins by discussing problems associated with inappropriate classification and placement of minority students, including being denied access to the general education curriculum, being placed in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Curriculum
Swan, William W., Ed.; Brown, Carvin L., Ed. – GPN Research Report, 1989
This collection of papers includes five articles on the education of students with emotional and/or behavioral disorders participating in the Georgia Psychoeducational Network Program (GPN). "Training Needs of Fully Certified BD Teachers in the Georgia Psychoeducational Network" (Robert J. Stansberry) found, in a survey of 203 certified…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Autism, Behavior Disorders, Disability Identification
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Special Educational Services Branch. – 1995
This document consists of a collection of fourteen information brochures, each issued in both an English and a French version. Each brochure describes the symptoms of a particular disability and provides recommended classroom interventions and additional resources. This collection covers the following disabilities (arranged alphabetically and…
Descriptors: Allergy, Asthma, Autism, Classroom Techniques
Gubbins, E. Jean; Siegle, Del, Ed. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented Newsletter, 2000
These two newsletters from the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) contain the following articles: (1) "NRC/GT: Professional Development--Not an Event" (E. Jean Gubbins), discusses NRC/GT research-based principles related to professional development and the importance of ongoing professional development; (2)…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Attention Deficit Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities
NCERI Bulletin, 1995
This bulletin presents two articles which challenge the current special education system, one in terms of the conceptualization of disability and the second in terms of differential and discriminatory treatment of poor and minority youth. The first article titled "New Trends in Disability Studies: Implications for Educational Policy" (Harlan Hahn)…
Descriptors: Definitions, Disabilities, Disability Identification, Disadvantaged Youth
Sayler, Michael, Ed. – Tempo, 1996
This theme issue of a Texas journal focuses on gifted education and culturally diverse students. "Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Students in Gifted Education" (Donna Y. Ford and J. John Harris) discusses the challenges of recruiting diverse students in gifted education and presents solutions, including using different measurements of…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Bilingual Students, Black Students, Cultural Awareness
St. Jean, David – National Research on the Gifted and Talented, 1996
This paper discusses the challenges of identifying gifted students from underrepresented or special populations. Reasons for underrepresentation of students from special populations are reviewed and include biases in standardized testing, underreferral of students from diverse cultural and ethnic groups to gifted programs by teachers, and the…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Classroom Environment, Cultural Differences, Disproportionate Representation
Peer reviewedAdams, Maurianne, Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1992
This journal presents a collection a essays that offer several new perspectives on teaching practice; give descriptive and narrative accounts of curricular and teaching innovations; and discusses a range of shared learnings obtained from public university, community college, and private college multicultural change processes. Chapters and their…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, College Administration, College Faculty, College Instruction
Communicator, 1992
This document consists of the five issues of the journal issued during 1992. Articles focus on the following major topics in gifted and talented education (GATE): (1) grouping and tracking; (2) cultural diversity; (3) educational reform and cooperative learning; (4) gifted girls; and (5) young gifted children. Major articles include the following:…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Cooperative Learning
