Underrepresentation in Gifted Education: How Did We Get Here and What Needs To Change? Straight Talk on the Issue of Underrepresentation: An Interview with Dr. Mary M. Frasier.

Grantham, Tarek C.

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ERIC Number: EJ653749

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Publication Date: 2002

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Underrepresentation in Gifted Education: How Did We Get Here and What Needs To Change? Straight Talk on the Issue of Underrepresentation: An Interview with Dr. Mary M. Frasier.

Grantham, Tarek C.

Roeper Review, v24 n2 p50-51 Win 2002

In this interview, Mary M. Frasier, the founder and director of the Torrance Center for Creative Studies, discusses attitudes that create barriers to including disadvantaged or minority students in gifted programs. The need for administrators to be truly committed to finding gifted children from underrepresented groups is stressed. (CR)

Descriptors: Ability Identification, Administrator Attitudes, Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Gifted, Minority Group Children, Student Evaluation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Special Issue: Underrepresentation among Ethnically Diverse Students in Gifted Education.

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