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Electronic technology can be used to overcome many of the restrictive factors or barriers to delivering services to rural schools, and it can expand the world of rural gifted students. On-line college and high school sites offering courses are listed. Also listed is a site for tutoring and one offering help for teachers of rural gifted students. Recommendations are made for legislatures and for rural school districts., Although there are issues for all children in rural schools, the needs of rural gifted students are especially critical (DeLeon & Argus-Calvo, 1997; Gear, 1984; Joyce & Wolking, 1988; O'Connell [...]

Studies of behavior modifications with gifted students are reviewed in terms of maladaptive and adaptive behaviors in gifted underachievers, culturally different students, and gifted students with serious maladjustment and less serious behavior problems. (CL)

Evaluation of the effectiveness of pull-out programs for meeting elementary gifted students' needs found such programs inadequate in meeting several criteria: integration with ongoing curriculum; rigorous identification procedures; daily activities; interaction with intellectual peers; pace matching and challenging students' learning rates; and teachers thoroughly trained in gifted education. (CB)

After defining a pull‐out program for the intellectually gifted, its advantages are summarized. Offered are seven basic principles 01 criteria that all programs for the intellectually gifted should meet. The pull‐out program is evaluated using these seven principles and criticism of the program follows. The special class is recommended as a substitute since it meets all seven principles. Also recommended are classes for intellectually above average students. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Editorial. Discusses the inappropriateness of the recommendations of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) regarding vertical acceleration. NCTM's stance on academic acceleration; Need for definitions in research and practice to be precise and explicit; Arguments against the conclusion that students fail to complete a mathematics sequence.