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The Challenges of Achieving Equity within Public School Gifted and Talented Programs
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Peters, Scott J. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2022
K-12 gifted and talented programs have struggled with racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, native language, and disability inequity since their inception. This inequity has been well documented in public schools since at least the 1970s and has been stubbornly persistent despite receiving substantial attention at conferences, in scholarly journals, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education
Money over Merit? Socioeconomic Gaps in Receipt of Gifted Services
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Grissom, Jason A.; Redding, Christopher; Bleiberg, Joshua F. – Harvard Educational Review, 2019
In this essay, Jason A. Grissom, Christopher Redding, and Joshua F. Bleiberg investigate the receipt of gifted services based on the socioeconomic status (SES) of elementary school students and their families. Using nationally representative longitudinal data, they show that gaps in the receipt of gifted services between the highest and lowest SES…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Access to Education, Elementary School Students, Socioeconomic Status
Birthdate Effects and Gifted Program Participation in Kindergarten
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Huang, Francis L. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2015
Research has suggested that relatively older children are more likely to be identified as gifted and talented students compared with their younger peers. Such a phenomenon disadvantages the youngest students while at the same time confers additional advantages to the older students as a result of receiving specialized and/or extra instruction. The…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Kindergarten, Age Differences, Talent Identification