Contents: What is giftedness?, Identifying gifted kids, Emotional dimensions of giftedness, Being a gifted education teacher, Understanding gifted kids from the inside out, Underachiever or selective consumer, The eight great gripes of gifted kids, and Making it safe to be smart: creating the gifted- friendly classroom.
Contents: Preface -- Introduction : golden prospects- and precedents -- The buffer : the "brutal facts" of K-12 education -- Curriculum : the foundation of effective education -- Literacy : the engine of equity -- Effective instruction : a remarkable convergence -- When evidence goes AWOL -- The (mis)education of educators -- Why professional development "almost always sucks" -- How we can get …