Reversing Underachievement Among Gifted Black Students

Reversing Underachievement Among Gifted Black Students

Author: Donna Y. Ford

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780807735350

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This text offers a discussion of the effort to end underachievement among gifted Black students and to increase the multicultural and multiracial representation of youth in gifted education.


Reversing Underachievement Among Gifted Black Students

Reversing Underachievement Among Gifted Black Students

Author: Donna Y. Ford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781593634872

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Explores the importance of identifying these students and the necessity of nurturing these unique young individuals. Presents the challenges facing gifted African American students in schools and examines alternate ways of addressing these issues. Focuses on the social, cultural, familial, school, and psychological factors that work to undermine gifted black students' achievements, but if explored, could benefit them. Provides educators with promising approaches to aid in the prevention of underachievement and under-motivation.


Multicultural Gifted Education

Multicultural Gifted Education

Author: Donna Y. Ford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-03

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1000494772

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Each year, the United States witnesses significant changes in the demographics of its citizens. Accordingly, schools—and the students we teach—are also changing. With such changes come the need, responsibility, and obligation for educators to provide students with an education that is both rigorous and culturally responsive. This book bridges the gap that exists between educating advanced learners and educating culturally different learners. Multicultural Gifted Education, 2nd ed. addresses various topics, including racially and culturally diverse students and families, historical and legal perspectives on educating gifted and minority students, culturally responsive curriculum and assessment, and counseling students from a multicultural perspective.


Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education

Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education

Author: Donna Y. Ford

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1000502910

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One pervasive educational issue is the national underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic students in gifted education. Virtually every school district is grappling with having too few students from these groups identified as gifted and served in gifted classes and programs. Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education addresses this long-standing national problem through the dual lens of recruitment and retention. The focus is on how to equitably recruit (screen, refer, and/or assess) culturally different students and, just as importantly, to retain them. Recruitment and retention require providing academic, cultural, and social supports to culturally different students and ensuring that educators are willing and able to address issues and barriers. No time is better than now to address and correct the underachievement albatross, and the focus on recruitment and retention holds the greatest promise. Nominated for a 2014 NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work-Instructional Category


Confronting Dogmatism in Gifted Education

Confronting Dogmatism in Gifted Education

Author: Don Ambrose

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1136674675

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This book looks beyond the predominant conceptual frameworks that dominate thinking about giftedness and talent. Leading thinkers in the field of gifted education question fundamental assumptions about high ability and probe the larger contexts that influence gifted education.


The Underachieving Gifted Child

The Underachieving Gifted Child

Author: Del Siegle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-10-17

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1000489817

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Why are some gifted children willing to tackle new challenges whereas others seem insecure or uninterested? Why do some gifted students achieve while others become caught in a cycle of underachievement? Are there strategies teachers and parents can implement that promote an achievement-oriented attitude? The Underachieving Gifted Child: Recognizing, Understanding, and Reversing Underachievement answers these important questions. Although there are many factors that contribute to achievement, achievement-oriented students exhibit four key traits: they believe that they have the skills to perform well, they expect that they can succeed, they believe what they are doing is meaningful, and they set realistic expectations and implement strategies to successfully complete their goals. This book offers specific strategies to help increase student achievement by improving students' attitudes in these four important areas.


Rethinking Gifted Education

Rethinking Gifted Education

Author: James H. Borland

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0807743046

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Gifted education is in a period of transition unlike any it has experienced in this generation. Thinkers within the field and without are questioning the practice of gifted education, the theoretical foundations on which this practice rests, and even the value and legitimacy of the concept of giftedness. This fresh and provocative volume contains essays by leading thinkers on gifted education and by writers outside the field who have examined it critically. Each author examines, reconsiders, and challenges the assumptions and beliefs underlying the theory and practice of gifted education, providing a "roadmap" to guide both current considerations of and future planning for gifted education programs.


Minority Students in Special and Gifted Education

Minority Students in Special and Gifted Education

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2002-08-30

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0309074398

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Special education and gifted and talented programs were designed for children whose educational needs are not well met in regular classrooms. From their inceptions, these programs have had disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic minority students. What causes this disproportion? Is it a problem? Minority Students in Special and Gifted Education considers possible contributors to that disparity, including early biological and environmental influences and inequities in opportunities for preschool and K-12 education, as well as the possibilities of bias in the referral and assessment system that leads to placement in special programs. It examines the data on early childhood experience, on differences in educational opportunity, and on referral and placement. The book also considers whether disproportionate representation should be considered a problem. Do special education programs provide valuable educational services, or do they set students off on a path of lower educational expectations? Would students not now placed in gifted and talented programs benefit from raised expectations, more rigorous classes, and the gifted label, or would they suffer failure in classes for which they are unprepared? By examining this important problem in U.S. education and making recommendations for early intervention and general education, as well as for changes in referral and assessment processes, Minority Students in Special and Gifted Education will be an indispensable resource to educators throughout the nation, as well as to policy makers at all levels, from schools and school districts to the state and federal governments.