Blending Research-Based Practices and Practice-Embedded Research: Project Excite Closes Achievement and Excellence Gaps for Underrepresented Gifted Minority Students

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 202-209

  Olszewski Kubilius, Paula ^a   Steenbergen Hu, Saiying ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement gap; front loading strategy; minority students; practice embedded research; research based practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021066888     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: 19349041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986217701836     Document Type: Review

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