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And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students |
| Author: |
Corwin, M. |
| ISBN: |
0380798298 |
| Publisher: |
Harper Perennial |
| URL: |
http://www.amazon.com/Still-We-Rise-Triumphs-Inner-City/dp/0380798298 |
| Year: |
2001 |
| Description: |
Miles Corwin's book is a narrative account of twelve gifted students who live and learn in distressed neighborhoods and the AP teachers who have helped them. This book can enlighten readers about the gifted and emphasizes that gifted children are not a socio-culturally homogeneous population. |
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| Comments: |
Contributed by: DITD Team Member on 3/15/2006
A good read for anyone interested in the full spectrum of gifted experience. Gifted children are not a socio-culturally homogeneous population but media coverage may slant the concept of giftedness in ways which suggest that the beneficiaries of GT education are exercising upper middle class privilege. Corwin's work provides effective correction to this concept... imagine telling these south-central students that they are the recipients of an "elitist" endowment. |
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