This paper considers the issue of equal access to gifted programs as it pertains to rural students, schools, districts, and states. It defines equal access and describes impediments to it. By focusing on educational policy that is amenable to change, the paper proposes techniques to make substantive gifted education programs available to representative numbers of bright rural students.
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