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Moore, Nancy Delano – G/C/T, 1982
The author, the mother of a gifted child, recounts her experiences in coming to understand her daughter's needs and in assessing the ability of the public and private systems of formal education to contribute to her development. (SW)
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Parent Child Relationship
Lambert, Susan E.; Lambert, Jonathan W. – G/C/T, 1982
The mentoring model, in which an "expert" develops an in-depth, sharing relationship with a student, is highly appropriate for gifted students who manifest strong performance discrepancies in academic areas, whose interpersonal peer relationships are weak, who suffer from a physical or emotional handicap, or are talented in nontraditional areas.…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Parent Child Relationship
Hoffman, Nancy, Ed.; Vargas, Joel, Ed.; Venezia, Andrea, Ed.; Miller, Marc S., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2007
"Minding the Gap" argues that in today's highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Postsecondary Education, High Schools