Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education - Softcover

Ford, Donna Y.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1618210491 ISBN 13: 9781618210494

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Nominated for a 2014 NAACP Image Award!

One pervasive educational issue is the national underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic students in gifted education. Virtually every school district is grappling with having too few students from these groups identified as gifted and served in gifted classes and programs. Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education addresses this long-standing national problem through the dual lens of recruitment and retention. The focus is on how to equitably recruit (screen, refer, and/or assess) culturally different students and, just as importantly, to retain them. Recruitment and retention require providing academic, cultural, and social supports to culturally different students and ensuring that educators are willing and able to address issues and barriers. No time is better than now to address and correct the underachievement albatross, and the focus on recruitment and retention holds the greatest promise.

About this title

About the Author:

Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D., professor at Vanderbilt University, is an award-winning author in gifted and urban education.

Review:

Ford presents a clear, well-organized position on the current status of gifted education recruitment practices, methods of retention, and the discrimination that often results from the continuation of practices that produce inequitable outcomes. She provides compelling examples of students she has encountered throughout her research, personal, and professional experience who have been subjected to discriminatory practices during the screening and/or identification process. Practical examples are offered in the text, including tools to measure the level of discrimination within a given population so that program administrators are able to quantify the extent to which they are deficient and to track progress. --Anthony Washington, Roeper Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1618210491
• ISBN 13: 9781618210494
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278