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- ↑ The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know?, Edited by Maureen Neihart, Sally M. Reis, Nancy M. Robinson, and Sidney M. Moon; National Association of Gifted Children (Prufrock Press, Inc.), 2002, p. 286.
- ↑ National Association for Gifted Children. (n.d.). Jacob Javits Gifted & Talented Students Education Act. Retrieved from https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/resources-university-professionals/jacob-javits-gifted-talented-students
- ↑ U.S. Department of Education (2021). Fiscal year 2021 budget summary. https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget21/summary/21summary.pdf
- ↑ http://www.valdosta.edu/colleges/education/pcft/document%20/marland-report.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]