Discusses the difficulties that high-ability black college students face in blending their academic interest and racial affiliation into their sense of self. Student narratives show how a strong peer community and positive student-faculty interactions can overcome these obstacles and promote healthy identity development. (Author/DB)

This introductory article describes following articles that address issues of ethics, power, and privilege within the context of educating African American learners with disabilities and those who are gifted and talented, and the path educators can follow in order to incorporate properly these perspectives into their practice and research. (CR)

This paper describes Test Analysis, an alternative assessment method which shifts the responsibility for learning and grading to the student. Students perform a written analysis of their corrected tests, especially errors, prior to receiving a final grade. Improvements in student attitudes toward tests and performance on them are reported from…

Suggestions are offered for fostering parental involvement in the education of gifted minority students and two programs encouraging parental involvement of gifted students with limited English proficiency in New York City and a program in Hartford (Connecticut) for Spanish-speaking students are briefly described. A list of national and state…

Investigates expectations that highly able children will be as emotionally well balanced as other children but will have special problems arising from others' reactions to their exceptionality and from inappropriate education. Finds that "gifted" children have different emotional profiles than others of the same measured ability not…

Before playing a video game, 47 gifted second graders and 47 gifted fifth graders were instructed to adopt an evaluative, process, outcome, or no specific goal focus while playing. Older children showed better performance overall and their best performance when instructed to adopt an evaluative goal. Younger children showed their worst performance…

The internal/external frame of reference model was examined for 131 adolescents participating in a summer program for academically talented students. Results suggest that the model was useful in understanding the academic self-concept development of students, with no significant differences among students with strengths in mathematics, verbal…

In this case study, an 8-year-old, verbally gifted, struggling reader's difficult experiences at home and school are discussed, as well as the responses to the paradox of his being highly verbal yet failing at reading. Research findings on verbal giftedness and underachievement are presented. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Students enrolled in regular, special, or gifted education have much to offer society and should not be consigned to the quarantines of separate schooling, as in the case of "Plessy." Older tracking and assessment models have outlived their usefulness within the current context of a multicultural society. (Contains 20 references.) (MLH)

This collection of articles presents information on such issues as: selective colleges most preferred by African American students; the bidding war for gifted African American students; African American student progress in medical schools; the meager endowments of black colleges; the digital divide at black colleges; and why early decision…

Group interviews with 26 special education teachers, 25 general education teachers, 8 Chapter 1 teachers, and 15 teachers of the gifted revealed that the majority of teachers had strong negative feelings about inclusion. Teachers identified factors affecting the success of inclusion, including class size, resources, extent to which all students…

The Learning and Study Strategies Inventory was given to 156 early entrants at the University of North Texas. The inventory successfully identified 90% of students who subsequently had academic problems (based on first semester college grade point average). Successful and unsuccessful participants differed in concentration and attention, ability…

A survey of 204 parents of gifted students (ages 3-14) found a majority reported their child showed high potential in more than two talent domains. Twenty-seven percent of parents reported that their child's school offers services for special talents and 60 percent reported their child participates regularly in sports activities. (Contains five…

This article emphasizes the importance of documenting gifted education results to governing bodies such as state legislatures and school boards. It discusses three general issues of communication with decision-makers: being clear on intentions, being considerate of decision-makers, and providing useful information. Data gathering suggestions for…

This response to an article regarding the tension between talent development and personal growth in gifted education argues that dissociation of these two aspects is conditional, not a constant state of affairs. Contingencies and processes responsible for the dissociation are identified and ways to integrated these two perspectives are discussed.…