EFFECTIVE CURRICULAR AND PROGRAM PRACTICES IN GIFTED EDUCATION AND THE INTERFACE WITH GENERAL-EDUCATION

This article describes the results of a review of recommended practice s in gifted education. Program and curricular practices are categorize d into those that are clearly and uniquely appropriate for gifted stud ents, practices requiring some additional support in order to be consi dered uniquely appropriate, defensible practices that are shared with general education, and some general educational practices for which th ere does not appear to be evidence to make a case for their uniqueness for the gifted, Implications for improving and clarifying the interfa ce between gifted and general education are provided.