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Hafenstein, Norma L.; Boley, Vicki; Lin, Joi – Gifted Child Today, 2022
Policy and funding influence equitable education for students who are gifted. The concept of equity is examined through variations in policy and in funding at the state, district, and local levels. Challenges and barriers to equity in policy and funding include policy structures, where policy provides guidance without accountability measures, or…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Educational Finance, Gifted Education
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Coronado, Jennifer M.; Lewis, Katie D. – Gifted Child Today, 2017
The U.S. public K-12 student population experienced a significant increase in the number of English language learners (ELLs) since 2010. Public schools responded to this change in demographics by increasing their services for ELLs; however, many were not initially prepared for this change. Within the field of gifted education, there is a concern…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Academically Gifted, Public Schools, Talent Identification
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Warne, Russell T.; Price, Chris J. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2016
The annals of gifted education research contain few educational policy studies and even fewer studies on the impacts of changes in policy. To partially fill this gap, the authors performed an ABA study investigating the impact of accountability legislation on the number of students reported gifted in Texas public schools. Data were collected from…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Accountability, Public Schools, Educational Legislation
Ruiz de Castilla, Verónica; August, Diane – Texas Education Research Center, 2017
The members of Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southwest's Texas English Learners Research Alliance requested this project because they were interested in learning more about the participation of current English learner students in gifted and talented (GT) programs in Texas, and how their participation compared with that of former English…
Descriptors: Talent Identification, Gifted Education, Academically Gifted, English Language Learners
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Esquierdo, J. Joy; Arreguin-Anderson, Maria – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2012
The issue of underrepresentation in gifted and talented (GT) programs has developed into a critical educational concern. At the core are ambiguous identification assessment practices, especially for bilingual students. To illustrate, this article reports data from the last decade that supports the underrepresentation of gifted Hispanic bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Gifted, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Children
Colangelo, Nicholas; Assouline, Susan G.; Gross, Miraca U. M. – Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development (NJ1), 2004
With support from the John Templeton Foundation, the authors held a Summit on Acceleration at The University of Iowa in May 2003. They invited distinguished scholars and educators from around the country to help them formulate a national report on acceleration. This first volume of the Templeton Report on acceleration trumpets an alarm to the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Barriers, Cost Effectiveness