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Features: } the biggest names in gifted education - from Tomlinson, Renzulli, Sternberg and Reis to Gallagher, Callahan, Johnsen, Van Tassel-Baska, Wiggins, Treffinger, and more. } co-publication with NAGC } the authors writing introductions for each section review the major themes and ideas of each section, discuss contemporary issues in that area, and project future trends } each article begins with an overview of the material to be presented, presents research, and discusses how readers can put the research to use. The why, the what, and the what now are thoroughly covered. } material contains tables, charts, and bulleted lists } as a single volume, the book is potentially the best desk reference book on the topic }as separate books, the material will be more accessible to teachers, administrators and professors who are interested in specific topics for their own educational, research, and site-based decision-making needs.

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Sally M. Reis is a professor and the department head of the Educational Psychology Department at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as principal investigator of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. She was a teacher for 15 years, 11 of which were spent working with gifted students on the elementary, junior high, and high school levels. She has authored more than 130 articles, 9 books, 40 book chapters, and numerous monographs and technical reports.  Her research interests are related to special populations of gifted and tal-ented students, including: students with learning disabilities, gifted females and diverse groups of talented students. She is also interested in extensions of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model for both gifted and talented students and as a way to expand offerings and provide general enrichment to identify talents and potentials in students who have not been previously identified as gifted. She has traveled extensively conducting workshops and providing profes-sional development for school districts on gifted education, enrichment programs, and talent development programs. She is co-author of The Schoolwide Enrichment Model, The Secondary Triad Model, Dilemmas in Talent Development in the Middle Years, and a book published in 1998 about women’s talent development titled Work Left Undone: Choices and Compromises of Talented Females. Sally serves on several editorial boards, including the Gifted Child Quarterly, and is a past president of the National Association for Gifted Children.

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