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Peer reviewedFord, Donna Y.; Harmon, Deborah A. – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 2001
This article maintains that the underrepresentation of diverse students in gifted education programs is due to a "deficit perspective" about culturally diverse populations. Recommendations include identifying and serving underachievers and low socioeconomic-status students, providing educators and gifted students with multicultural education, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cultural Differences, Disproportionate Representation, Eligibility
Peer reviewedPeterson, Jean Sunde – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 1997
Qualitative analysis of language generated in structured interviews with 11 high-ability at-risk middle school children (who had not been identified for gifted programs) yielded information concerning personal difficulties, perceived support, familiarity with danger and violence, home environment, school experiences, perceptions of the future, and…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Educational Environment, Family Environment, Gifted Disadvantaged
