Ability grouping and acceleration of gifted students: articles from the Roeper Review.(Ability Grouping and Acceleration)(Brief Article)(Editorial)

From: Roeper Review | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Borland, James H.; Horton, Dawn; Subotnik, Rena F.; Chen, Shiang-Jiun; Chun, Miran; Freeman, Cathy; Goldberg, Sabrina; Yu, Julie | Copyright information

This volume contains articles from past issues of the Roeper Review focusing on two critical issues in gifted education: ability grouping and acceleration. The intended audience is parents and teachers of gifted students. Although parents and teachers are among those who subscribe to and read the Roeper Review, the articles the journal publishes are not written specifically for those audiences and their authors sometimes assume that the reader is more familiar with educational jarg...

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