Roeper Review Special Issue Release and Free Download
Dr. Jennifer Riedl Cross, Director of Research at the Center for Gifted Education, recently co-edited a special issue of Roeper Review with Dr. James Borland focused on social inequality and gifted education. In the introduction, they noted:
Inequality is a complicated word in our field’s lexicon. On the one hand, it represents something that is our raison d’être and the basis for our practice. The existence of certain inequalities—for example, the fact that students differ—are not equal—with respect to their educational needs—is what makes gifted education necessary as an alternative to one-size-fits-all educational approaches that ignore individual differences and individual needs.
However, inequality has another meaning and a set of connotations that are more problematic, the kind that come to mind when one encounters the phrase “inequality in America.” This is the kind of inequality that reflects unfair advantage and damaging disadvantage; power and status disparities; conditions resulting from racism, ethnic and linguistic bias, and poverty. It is this kind of inequality that has plagued gifted education from the beginning and that provokes some of the most damning criticisms of our field. (p. 78)
The issue includes articles on socioeconomic inequality and giftedness, balancing priorities in gifted education, rural math talent, arts education, and gifted students with learning disabilities. In addition, Dr. Cross wrote an article titled “Gifted Education as a Vehicle for Enhancing Social Equality,” which is available on the Taylor & Francis website as a featured free download for the month of June. Click here to download your free copy today.
