This volume covers significant highlights in the history of gifted
education, addressing significant contributors to the field, important
political and policy concerns, and programs and practices of note. The
book's scope is holistic, using Ayn Rand's concept of "men [and women]
of the mind" to frame giftedness as a quality of individuals that
extends beyond the academic or "schoolhouse" setting and into a range of
aspects of the lived human experience of gifted individuals. CONTENTS: