Able, Gifted and Talented Underachievers

A practical guide to identifying gifted underachievers and enabling them to fulfil their potential, raising whole school standards. <ul> <li>Extensive new content includes the latest best practice in addressing able underachievement</li> <li>Explains the origins of underachievement, both overt and covert, especially in more able learners – provides a model that identifies a range of factors that conspire to lower achievement</li> <li>The UK Government’s 2005 White Paper ‘Higher Standards, Better Schools for All’ set specific provision for Gifted and Talented (G&T) – there are similar programmes in all developed countries</li> <li>The editor is a leading researcher in G&T education – contributors include Belle Wallace, Barry Hymer and Ian Warwick, the foremost practitioners in the field</li> </ul>