Legal Issues in Gifted Education

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.

Citation

Castellano, J.A. and Matthews, M.S. (2014), "Legal Issues in Gifted Education", Gifted Education: Current Perspectives and Issues (Advances in Special Education, Vol. 26), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0270-4013(2014)0000026001