Underrepresentation of minority students in gifted and talented education

Multicultural Education, Fall 2003 by Anguiano, Lidia T

Gifted and Talented education is important to us all, because when one student fails in school we all fail and when one student succeeds we all stand to gain.

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Lidia T. Anguiano is a bilingual educator presently completing a second Master's Degree in education at the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.