Able, gifted and talented underachievers (2nd ed.)

A practical guide to identifying gifted underachievers and enabling them to fulfil their potential, raising whole school standards.

• Extensive new content includes the latest best practice in addressing able underachievement
• 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
• 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
• 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