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Bright, Talented and Black: A Guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners provides essential information about the parenting and education of Black gifted children. Based on her personal experience as a parent, as well as a gifted education professional. Dr Davis offers many practial suggestions to help parents and educators who work with bright, talented, African American children.



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Joy Lawson Davis

Joy Lawson Davis has over 30 years of experience in gifted education as a teacher, administrator, writer, researcher & consultant to schools nationwide. Davis is presently an Assistant Professor of Education teaching courses in Gifted Education and Diversity Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. Davis is a native of Virginia. As a practitioner, scholar and writer she has focused her work in advocating for increased attention to the needs of diverse gifted students, in particular African American students and their families. A graduate of The College of William & Mary in Virginia Davis is now serving a Second Term as Chair of the National Association for Gifted Children's Diversity & Equity Committee, co-editor of the Special Populations division newsletter, Mosaic and was recently named to the Advisory Board of Gifted Child Today, a practitioner oriented peer-reviewed journal with the largest subscription base of any gifted journal nationwide. Davis is also a member of the International Gifted Education Teacher Development network (Iget-Network) providing training for teachers interested in meeting the needs of underserved gifted children in the Caribbean and South Africa.



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