The July/August issue of School Psychology International included an article entitled 'Discovering Gifted Children in a Third World Nation', namely the Sudan. By way of contrast the following two articles discuss the approach taken toward gifted children in Israel - a nation which, although falling within the general classification of a Western industrialized state, cannot be closely compared with other Western nations because of its uni que problems - and in California, which is not only the most prosperous state in the U.S.A., butprobably the most prosperous and advanced area in the modern world.
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