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Playing Favorites: Gifted Education and the Disruption of Community » (1st Edition)
Authors: Mara Sapon-Shevin, Jeannie Oakes (Foreword by), Martin Lipton
ISBN-13: 9780791419809, ISBN-10: 0791419800
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: January 1994
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Mara Sapon-Shevin
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction: Schools as Communities | 1 | |
| 1 | Underserved and Over-Deserving: Rationales for the Support of Gifted Education | 13 |
| 2 | They're Good, They Don't Ask: Silence and Voice on Gifted Education | 41 |
| 3 | It Takes a Special Person to Work with Those Kids: Teachers and the Gifted Category | 53 |
| 4 | These Kids Really Show Themselves Early: Choosing Children for the Enrichment Program | 113 |
| 5 | I Only Want What's Best for My Child: Parents and Gifted Education | 141 |
| 6 | The Kids with Disposable Incomes: Meritocracy and Gifted Education | 181 |
| 7 | Visions of an Inclusive Future | 235 |
| References | 259 | |
| Index | 269 |
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