Handbook of gifted education / Nicholas Colangelo and Gary A. Davis.

Introduction--Conceptions and indentification--Instructional models and practices--Creativity, thinking skills, and eminence--Psychological and counseling issues--Populations of giftedness-- Special topics.

Introduction and overview -- Issues and challenges in the education of gifted students -- The science and politics of intelligence in gifted education -- Nature and nurture of giftedness -- Transforming gifts into talents: the DMGT as a developmental theory -- Conception of giftedness and its relationship to the development of social capital -- Giftness according to the theory of successful intelligence -- Multiple intelligence: a perspective on giftedness -- The relationship between genetics and intelligence -- Psychological and educational assessment of gifted children -- Excellence with justice in identification and programming -- New directions in enrichment and acceleration -- What matters in curriculum for gifted learners: reflections on theory, research, and practice -- The schoolwide enrichment model: developing creative and productive giftedness -- Talent searches: meeting the needs of academically talented youth -- Special summer and Saturday programs for gifted students -- Talented youth at the secondary level -- State-supported residential high schools -- Developing talent: time, task, and context -- Mentoring the gifted and talented -- Grouping and tracking -- Cooperative learning and high ability students -- Evaluating gifted programs: a broader perspective -- Identifying creative students, teaching for creative growth -- In the habit of skillful thinking -- Artistic giftedness --Talent, accomplishment, and eminence -- When does giftedness become genius? And when not? -- Counseling gifted students -- Counseling families -- Emotional and spiritual giftedness -- Motivational issues: potential to performance -- Underachievement: a national epidemic -- High rosk gifted learners -- Extreme precocity: prodigies, savants, and children of extraordinarily high IQ -- Young gifted children -- Gifted adolescents -- Gender and giftedness -- Equity and excelleence: culturally diverse students in gifted education -- Exceptional spatial abilities -- Gifted children with learning disabilities -- International perspectives -- Teachers of the gifted: gifted teachers -- Gifted education in rural schools -- Technology and the gifted -- Gifted education and legal issues: procedures and recent decisions -- Federal involvement in gifted and talented education.