Article by Linda Emerick details the main areas that G/T students felt were crucial in being able to reverse a pattern of underachievement in their lives.

Information on how teachers can meet the needs of gifted students that are underachieving.

Includes recommendations and considerations for helping underachievers.

Program of Assessment, Diagnosis and Instruction (PADI) is an elementarty school program that finds and fosters potential giftedness among minority and poor children. PADI seeks to nurture higher level thinking skills among these underachieving students.

Article by Sally Reis and D. Betsy McCoach reviews studies on underachievement among the gifted. It explores some of the problems of identifying these students and provides suggestions for helping them according to today's research findings.

Strategies to reverse underachievement.

Gifted students are one group of exceptional learners who are not normally considered at risk for academic failure. However, the underachievement of academically gifted students is an area of concern and frustration for many parents, teachers, and counselors.