A Look Back: Purposes and plans for gifted education in Kappan. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Preston, Teresa
• Is Part Of: Phi Delta Kappan. Volume 102:Number 4(2020)
• Page Start: 5
• Page End: 7
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: Kappan -- gifted -- talented -- talent development; Education -- United States -- Periodicals; Greek letter societies -- Periodicals; Onderwijs; Éducation -- Périodiques; Associations désignées par des lettres grecques -- Périodiques; Éducation; Enseignement; Pédagogie; Politique éducative; Recherche en éducation; Réforme du système éducatif; Services aux élèves; Système éducatif; États-Unis; Étude comparée (Descripteur de forme); Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 371.0097305
• DOI: 10.1177/0031721720978054
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0031-7217

Abstract

In this monthly column, Kappan managing editor Teresa Preston explores how the magazine has covered current issues in the past. This column looks at how authors have discussed the best ways to educate the most advanced students. Ensuring that students are appropriately challenged at school has interested Kappan authors since as far back as the 1940s. Programs have had the goal of improving students' abilities, helping them with social challenges, and building a better workforce. Although some have decried these programs for elitism, educators have long sought ways to expand the definition of giftedness to bring in more students .