Mara Sapon-Shevin
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Mara Sapon-Shevin is a professor of inclusive education at Syracuse University.
She is best known as a critic of gifted education and turned down an offer of a place for her daughter in a gifted education programme on the grounds that "I would never have wanted to raise a child who thought that she was better or smarter than other people".
[edit] Books
- Playing Favorites: Gifted Education and the Disruption of Community, ISBN 0-7914-1980-0
- Because We Can Change the World: A Practical Guide To Building Cooperative, Inclusive Classroom Communities, ISBN 0-205-17489-2
- Widening the Circle : The Power of Inclusive Classrooms, ISBN 0-8070-3280-8
[edit] External links
- What's best for the brightest? - an article on the debate about gifted education, where Mara Sapon-Shevin is quoted
- Who's a clever kid, then? - another article on gifted education, citing her
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