Policy and Practice: A Twenty Year Retrospective on Gifted Education in the Australian State of New South Wales

Gifted Education International

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 182-196

  Forster, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 77954315565     PISSN: 02614294     EISSN: 20479077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026142940501900211     Document Type: Article

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