Impact of 2 Elementary School Principals’ Leadership on Gifted Education in Their Schools

Impact of 2 Elementary School Principals’ Leadership on Gifted Education in Their Schools - article from the USA - "Currently, principals are involved with a variety of programs offered in schools, such as IDEA, English Language Learners, Title I remedial services, migrant education, and gifted and talented programs. Added to the list of responsibilities is the No Child Left Behind (NCLB; 2001) law that promulgates that no child will be left behind academically. However, there is “a growing recognition that gifted students are being poorly served by most public schools” (Hoy & Hoy, 2003, p. 39). Are principals really serving the gifted and talented students in our schools? The purpose of this study was to investigate principal leadership on gifted education in schools that were known to have high-quality elementary gifted programs. In “A Tale of Two Principals,” Weber, Colarulli-Daniels, and Leinhauser (2003) investigated the role of principals in relation to gifted and talented children. However, they found neither extensive nor current research focusing on the role of the principal in elementary schools specifically for gifted learners. This situation does not appear to have changed. Gifted children continue to be an underserved population in school."