University and College Early Entrance Programs: Defining the Issues Through a Definitive Special Issue

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsSusan G. AssoulineSusan G. Assouline is the director of the University of Iowa’s Belin–Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development and a professor of school psychology. She is especially interested in the identification of academic talent in elementary students and is coauthor (with Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik) of both editions of Developing Math Talent: A Comprehensive Guide to Math Education for Gifted Students in Elementary and Middle School. As well, she is codeveloper of the Iowa Acceleration Scale, a tool designed to guide educators and parents through decisions about grade-skipping students. She has extensive expertise on the decision-making process for whole-grade and subject acceleration and has consulted on several hundred acceleration cases. Dr. Assouline is cofounder, with Nicholas Colangelo, of the University of Iowa’s Belin–Blank Center’s National Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering. She is leading the development of A Nation Empowered (Assouline, Colangelo, & Van Tassel-Baska, 2015), the revision of A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students (Colangelo, Assouline, & Gross, 2004 Colangelo, N., Assouline, S. G., & Gross, M. U. M. (2004). A nation deceived: How schools hold back America’s brightest students (Vol. 1 and Vol. II). Iowa City, IA: The University of Iowa, The Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development. [Google Scholar]). susan-assouline@uiowa.edu