Gifted students and inclusion
Subtitle: exploring the tracking debate
By: Sarah Schaffer, editor.
Contributors: Schaffer, Sarah, 1956-
Series: Hot topics series
Publisher: Phi Delta Kappa
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Gifted children -- Education -- United States; Ability grouping in education -- United States; Track system (Education)
Notes: "December 1996."

Chiefly previously published material.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Talent development in social, historical, and philosophical perspectives / S. Samuel Shermis; title: Gifted education : matching instruction with needs / Gary H. Davis and Sylvia B. Rimm; title: Gifted education at a crossroads : the program status study / Jeanne H. Purcell; title: Tracking : perspectives with a view toward the year 2000 / Mary Jean Lush; title: How schools are shortchanging the gifted / Sally M. Reis; title: Educating the gifted : a national resource / Lita Linzer Schwartz; title: The attack on excellence / Charles J. Sykes; title: Detracking America's schools : the reform without cost? / Dominic J. Brewer, Daniel I. Rees and Laura M. Argys; title: The reform without cost? : a reply to our critics / Dominic J. Brewer, Daniel I. Rees and Laura M. Argys; title: Special programs found to benefit gifted students / Debra Viadero; title: Appropriate differentiated services : guides for best practices in the education of gifted children / Mary Ruth Coleman and James J. Gallagher; title: Special classes for gifted students? : absolutely! / Sally Burton-Szabo; title: Brain drain / Gillian Lee Weiss; title: Inequality and access to knowledge / Linda Darling-Hammond; title: Untracking and students' futures : closing the gap between aspirations and expectations / Renée Smith-Maddox and Anne Wheelock; title: Detracking and its detractors : flawed evidence, flawed values / Robert E. Slavin; title: How to make detracking work / Richard S. Marsh and Mary Anne Raywid; title: Students may be harmed by ability grouping / Paul S. George; title: Mainstreaming the gifted / Scott Willis; title: Promoting gifted behavior in an untracked middle school setting / Thomas O. Erb, Stephen O. Gibson and Suzanne E. Aubin; title: In pursuit of excellence : gifted inclusion in middle schools / Susan Calhoun and Caroline Casey; title: Meeting the needs of the gifted in the regular classroom : the practices of exemplary teachers and schools / Karen L. Westberg; title: Providing equity for all : meeting the needs of high-ability students / Sally M. Reis; title: Integrating gifted education into the total school curriculum / Carolyn R. Cooper; title: Making the most out of inclusive setting / Krystal Goree; title: The importance of cluster grouping / Mary Ruth Coleman; title: Rediscovering self-reliance in education : the optimal match / William G. Durden and Lesley Mackay; title: You can't get there from here : the need for a new logic in education reform / Jeff Howard; title: How gifted education devalues intellect / Edwina D. Pendarvis and Craig B. Howley; title: Lake Wobegon revisited : on diversity and education / Andrew Biemiller.