Mary Ruth Coleman
Biography
Mary Ruth Coleman is the director of Project U-STARS (Using Science Talent and Abilities to Recognize Students) at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a joint appointment with the School of Education, where she is an associate professor of special education. Dr. Coleman has taught in both general and gifted educational programs in both public and private schools. She served as the associate editor for the Journal for the Education of the Gifted for over ten years, has guest-edited special issues for the Journal of Secondary Education; is a contributing editor to Gifted Child Today and is on the advisory board for Gifted Child Quarterly. She is also past president of The Association for the Gifted, a division of Council for Exceptional Children.
www.fpg.unc.edu/~ustars
Articles
The Identification of Students Who Are Gifted
Few areas in the education of children with exceptionalities are as controversial and critical as appropriate identification of children who are gifted. The controversies involve all the pros and... [more]
Conditions of Teaching Children with Exceptional Learning Needs: The Bright Futures Report
In the school year 1996-97, approximately 4,000 special education teaching positions remained unfilled in the United States, and nearly 33,000 positions were staffed by teachers not fully qualified... [more]
