The State of Gifted Education: Toward a Bright Future

Over time, special programs for bright students have varied depending on available funding and changing definitions of what it means to be “gifted.” Here, Dorothy A. Sisk, former director of the U.S. Office of Gifted and Talented and now Conn Chair Professor in Gifted Education at the College of Education at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, explores the ideas of the past and what they promise for the future.