Gifted Children and Legal Issues: An Update [Paperback]

Frances A. Karnes (Author), Ronald G. Marquardt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2000

Gifted Children and Legal Issues: An Update

A key resource for schools, teachers, parents, and organizations.

Our brightest children are often neglected or even hindered by school structures and policies. This book reports court cases brought against schools since 1991 in areas such as appropriate curriculum, civil rights, home-schooling, and personal injury.

Parents are advised how to seek mediation and due process hearings as effective alternatives to litigation. Policy statements from the National Association for Gifted Children are included, along with addresses of state and national gifted child advocacy organizations and agencies.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...a volume that everyone who deals with gifted children should maintain as a guidebook." -- Gifted and Talented International Journal

"A valuable resource and....unique contribution to the field of education of gifted students." -- James J. Gallagher, Ph.D., Past President, National Association for Gifted Children

"This valuable...book offers excellent information." -- Choice Magazine

About the Author

Frances A. Karnes, Ph.D. and Ronald G. Marquardt, Ph.D.,Esq.

Dr. Karnes is a Professor of Special Education and Director of The Center for Gifted Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi. She is the former president of The Association for the Gifted. Dr. Marquardt is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Mississippi. As an attorney, Dr. Marquardt is a specialist in constitutional law and legal research. He and Dr. Karnes are Co-Directors of the Institute for Law and Gifted Education in Hattiesburg, MS.

Product Details

• Paperback: 230 pages
• Publisher: Great Potential Pr Inc (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0910707340
• ISBN-13: 978-0910707343
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,469,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for all educators, parents & policy makers, April 6, 2000

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gifted Children and Legal Issues: An Update (Paperback)

Frances Karnes is Director of the Center for Gifted Studies at The University of Southern Mississippi where she is also Professor of Special Education. Ronald Marquardt is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at The University of Southern Mississippi and a specialist in constitutional and administrative law. In Gifted Children And Legal Issues: An Update they have collaborated to bring together the very latest in a profoundly informative survey of the legal rights and obligations connected to the public education of gifted children. The chapters include Federal and State initiatives, the legal process and gifted education, court cases and gifted students' educational opportunities, a case-by-case examination of school policies affecting gifted education, negotiation in gifted education, gifted education and mediation, gifted education and due process, other legal issues related to gifted youth, gifted children and the Office for Civil Rights, legal issues affecting the gifted in the new millennium. Gifted Children And Legal Issues: An Update is further enhanced for the reader with a number of appendices: Jacob Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 1988; Table Of Cases; State Offices of Gifted Education; State Associations for the Gifted; National Associations and Resources for the Gifted; Position Statements of the National Association for Gifted Children. Gifted Children And Legal Issues: An Update is essential reading for all educators, policy makers, and parents concerned with the issues of public education and the gifted child.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great supplement to the original..., March 6, 2000

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Carolyn K. "Mrs. Hoagie" (Hoagies' Gifted Education Page) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gifted Children and Legal Issues: An Update (Paperback)

Gifted Children and Legal Issues: An Update picks up where Gifted Children and Legal Issues: Parents Stories of Hope left off. The new volume adds more recent legal findings, plus options to full legal discourse, including negotiation, mediation, and finally, due process.

Plus appendices including the Javits legislation that we often hear of, but until now I didn't know what it *really* said, a list of state gifted education offices, state associations, national associations, and position statements of the NAGC.

A good reference volume for parents and professionals working with (and fighting the battles for) gifted children!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This was a gift, July 19, 2005

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Linda Gordon Howard (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gifted Children and Legal Issues: An Update (Paperback)

I BOUGHT THIS BOOK AS A GIFT. I DID NOT READ IT. MY SISTER-IN-LAW LOVED IT. THAT'S ALL I CAN TELL YOU.