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Winebrenner, S., & Brulles, D. (2008). The Cluster Grouping Handbook: How to Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit (212 pp., $34.95 paper, ISBN-13: 978-1-57542-279-4)
For gifted children themselves the point of gifted theory is not theoretical; it is that theory changes practices they experience. We should put in this light the subtitle of The Cluster Grouping Handbook, by Susan Winebrenner and Dina Brulles: How to Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All. This subtitle, like every page and paragraph in this book, pursues the book's purpose with a near-mathematical precision, for that is exactly what this book is. The Cluster Grouping Handbook does not merely discuss the cluster grouping concept; instead, it systematically explains how to implement cluster grouping in real school systems, and it includes a CD of reproducible, professional forms and letters to implement each stage of that process. The purpose of The Cluster Grouping Handbook is to help school systems meet the needs of gifted children as a part of a comprehensive, school-wide strategy for meeting the needs of all children. In this model, as the authors point out, gifted children do not get left behind, even within "the current politics of education," when the "focus of most educators is on the learning needs of students who score below grade-level standards" (p. 1).
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