In the summer of 2009, Prufrock Press published a special issue of Gifted Child Today on the topic of Response to Intervention (RtI) and gifted education. This issue quickly became one of the most widely read issues in the peer-reviewed journal�s history. In fact, we had so many requests for additional copies of that issue, extra copies from the original press run were quickly sold out. It seems that many individuals, universities, and gifted education programs around the country were using the special issue for professional development purposes.
For gifted education, RtI represents many important opportunities and challenges. To help education professionals take a proactive look at the ways gifted education and the needs of gifted students fit within the RtI initiative, Gifted Child Today�s editor, Susan Johnsen, Ph.D., and the journal�s editorial board invited two prominent professors (Mary Ruth Coleman, Ph.D. and Claire E. Hughes, Ph.D.) to guest edit a special issue of GCT on the important topic of RtI and gifted child education.
To encourage the widest possible exposure of this important topic, I have made the decision to offer this issue of GCT free of charge as a downloadable PDF.
The free download of this important issue of GCT can be found here:
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Joel