TY - CHAP AB - Abstract Gifted education suffers from the lack of a legal definition of giftedness and federal mandate for the provision of services in schools, and also from a lack of any federal funding to provide services. These lead to a situation characterized by extreme inconsistency in provision of educational services across locations, sometimes even within the same school district. We offer a historical perspective on these issues and a view of the current status of gifted education services, followed by discussion of relevant legal issues in this context. VL - 26 SN - 978-1-78350-741-2/0270-4013 DO - 10.1108/S0270-4013(2014)0000026001 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0270-4013(2014)0000026001 AU - Castellano Jaime A. AU - Matthews Michael S. PY - 2014 Y1 - 2014/01/01 TI - Legal Issues in Gifted Education T2 - Gifted Education: Current Perspectives and Issues T3 - Advances in Special Education PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 1 EP - 19 Y2 - 2024/04/16 ER -