Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education

Prof. Jonathan Plucker is the Julian C. Stanley Endowed Professor of Talent Development at Johns Hopkins University, where he works in the School of Education and Center for Talented Youth.

Carolyn M. Callahan, Ph.D., professor in the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, also is associate director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. She teaches courses in the area of education of the gifted, and is executive director of the Summer Enrichment Program. Dr. Callahan has authored more than 130 articles, 25 book chapters and monographs in gifted education focusing on creativity, the identification of gifted students, program evaluation, and the issues faced by gifted females. Dr. Callahan has received recognition as Outstanding Faculty Member in the Commonwealth of Virginia and was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association for Gifted Children. She is a past-president of The Association for the Gifted and the National Association for Gifted Children. She also sits on the editorial boards of Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal for the Education of the Gifted, and Roeper Review.

Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Academic Acceleration
CHAPTER 2 Administrative Leadership
CHAPTER 3 Afterschool Programs and Services
CHAPTER 4 Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs
CHAPTER 5 Autism Spectrum Disorders and High Ability
CHAPTER 6 Bullying
CHAPTER 7 Career Decisions and Development
CHAPTER 8 College Students
CHAPTER 9 Conceptions of Giftedness
CHAPTER 10 Counseling Gifted and Talented Students
CHAPTER 11 Creativity
CHAPTER 12 Differentiated Instruction
CHAPTER 13 Diversity and Gifted Education
CHAPTER 14 Enrichment Theory, Research, and Practice
CHAPTER 15 Excellence Gaps
CHAPTER 16 Gender Issues
CHAPTER 17 Gifted Programming Standards
CHAPTER 18 Homeschooling and Gifted Education
CHAPTER 19 Identification
CHAPTER 20 Legal Issues and Gifted Education
CHAPTER 21 Mathematics Gifted Education
CHAPTER 22 Mind, Brain, and the Education of Gifted Children
CHAPTER 23 Alternative and Nonverbal Assessments
CHAPTER 24 Parenting Gifted Children
CHAPTER 25 Professional Development
CHAPTER 26 Reading and Talented Readers
CHAPTER 27 Response to Intervention
CHAPTER 28 Rural Gifted Students
CHAPTER 29 Science Education for Gifted Students
CHAPTER 30 Social and Emotional Issues in Gifted Education
CHAPTER 31 Suicide and Gifted Students
CHAPTER 32 Talent Development
CHAPTER 33 Talent Search Programs
CHAPTER 34 Teacher Preparation and Gifted Education
CHAPTER 35 Technology
CHAPTER 36 Thinking and Learning Styles
CHAPTER 37 Twice-Exceptionality
CHAPTER 38 Underachievers
CHAPTER 39 Visual and Performing Arts
CHAPTER 40 Writing and the Gifted Learner

About the Editors
About the Authors
Index