Racial and ethnic representation in gifted programs: Current status of and implications for gifted Asian American students

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-136

  Yoon, So Yoon ^a   Gentry, Marcia ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian American; Ethnicity; Gifted; Identification; Race; Representation; Underrepresentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649155253     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986208330564     Document Type: Article

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