Gifted Education: Promising Practices by Joan Smutny traces the history of gifted education and discusses the challenges faced by educators responsible for matching the strengths and needs of children with appropriate program services.
Smutny focuses on practical problems and reviews the relevant research, covering the full range of gifted program options at the elementary and secondary levels. She also singles out important but often overlooked topics, including how best to serve the needs of gifted girls, low-income and minority gifted children, and gifted underachievers.
The book, which costs $17.95, is available from the Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation [www.pdkintl.org] at P.O. Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47401-0789; (812) 339-1156.
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