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Gifted Children and Legal Issues: An Update

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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.

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!

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.