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
