Over the past few years, James Delisle has become more and more bold in his attacks on Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) and Joseph Renzulli's Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM). He has made numerous presentations at state and national conferences and written articles claiming that Gardner and Renzulli have advocated that all children are gifted and that services to identify gifted children have been diluted or eliminated as a result.
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DelisleJ. R. (2000). Expert's forum. Duke Gifted Letter, 1(1), 2–3.
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