Opportunities for Rural Gifted Students: Improving Educational Options through Acceleration.

Jones, Eric D.; Southern, W. Thomas

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ERIC Number: EJ494771

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1994

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Opportunities for Rural Gifted Students: Improving Educational Options through Acceleration.

Jones, Eric D.; Southern, W. Thomas

Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, v5 n4 p60-66 Sum 1994

This paper offers suggestions for providing accelerative opportunities for rural gifted students. Guidance is provided on overcoming local barriers and the chronic lack of sufficient resources in rural areas. Strategies incorporating telecommunications, cooperation with other districts and universities, faculty inservices, and community mentoring programs are discussed. (PB)

Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Adolescents, Advanced Courses, Distance Education, Educational Resources, Independent Study, Mentors, Rural Education, Rural Extension, Rural Schools

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom; Information Analyses

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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