Removing the Mask : Giftedness in Poverty

This book is insightful about the community of learners who are often overlooked as gifted and talented. The book gives an analysis of a diverse group of students. I had several aha moments while reading this book.

This book addresses the differences between gifted students who are wealthy, middle class and poor and how they interact with their world. It further helps educators to meet the challenges of identifying gifted students of poverty through interviews, inventories and guidelines. While putting all the templates to use for every possible gifted child would be daunting, if not impossible, a gifted educator would be remiss in not using them for highly verbal or creative students of poverty. The book is well worth it for the teacher inventory alone.