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  • Volume 29
  •  Issue 4
  • Publication Date: Fall 2006
  • Page Number(s): 14-18
  • DOI: 10.4219/gct-2006-10



Multicultural Issues: Closing the Achievement Gap: How Gifted Education Can Help

Donna Y. Ford

The field of education faces many challenges in its effort to ensure excellence and equity for all students. The subfields of special education and gifted education are being challenged in particular because of persistent accusations of inequities relative to culturally diverse students. For example, a litany of studies, reports, and works from popular press detail the pervasive overrepresentation of Black and Latino students in special education (Artiles, 2003; Donovan, 2002; Eitle, 2002; Harry & Klingner, 2006) and their underrepresentation in gifted education (Ford, Moore, & Milner, 2005; Frasier et al., 1995). The most recent data from the Office for Civil Rights (“Elementary and Secondary,” 2002) reveal that efforts to rectify the two representation issues have not been effective.


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