Young, gifted ... and broke

Identification Young Children 1 Running Head: IDENTIFICATION OF YOUNG, GIFTED CHILDREN Identification of young, gifted children: An analysis of instruments and recommendations for practice

Selecting instruments to identify gifted students is difficult and problematic, especially when it comes to young, gifted children as they are growing fast physically and cognitively, making identification even more challenging. Although some states require that local school districts have a plan for identifying gifted children early, there are no Federal legislative mandates that actual educat...

High Bids and Broke Winners

This paper analyzes auctions where budget-constrained bidders have options to declare bankruptcy. It predicts a bidding equilibrium that changes discontinuously in a borrowing rate available to bidders. When the borrowing rate is above a threshold, high-budget bidders win, and the likelihood of bankruptcy is low. When the borrowing rate is below the threshold, the winner is the most budget-cons...

Gifted and talented students

Gifted Children

The need for a book?or better still, books?on the needs of gifted children is beyond doubt. Of the 33 references given by the authors on this topic, only three are by British writers. It is therefore all the more regrettable that this book cannot be welcomed unreservedly. The preface calls it entertaining and pleasant, and that it certainly is. So are the 15 photographs it contains but, except ...

The gifted: Identity construction through the practice of gifted education

Over the past two decades in Australia, the field of gifted education has expanded considerably. The term ‘giftedness’ has effectively entered mainstream discourse. The field of gifted education, which nowadays operates as a compensatory function of mass education, is comprised of groups of people who broadly share in the concept of giftedness but contest, through discourse, its meanings and pr...