While the program's stated mission is to increase the number
of gifted minority students in four schools, the folks at Cammon have a wider view of success.
The majority of articles and studies
on gifted minority students have focused on issues of identification, primarily because some minority groups of gifted learners, particularly Black, Hispanic American, and Native American, have been underrepresented in gifted programs.
Nevertheless, the patterns of leadership and out - of - class accomplishments of
gifted minority students are very similar to those of nonminority gifted students (Kerr, Colangelo, Maxey, & Christensen, 1989).
Creating culturally responsive classrooms for
gifted minority students.
Gifted minority students: Reframing approaches to their identification and education.
These alterations are very likely to cause a change in
a gifted minority student's position in the family.