"Rural Gifted Students: Victims of Public Education," highlights the devastatingeffects that ineffective education programs are having on the gifted children in almost all small towns across America. The book describes the problem in detail with documented facts and provides a solution based on the differentiation of instruction in the traditional heterogeneous classroom. Gifted education receives almost no funding from federal or state coffers. In fact, the 378,000 gifted children in rural public schools often get nothing more than additional work that is not aligned with their needs or potential. Talented and Gifted (TAG) students are harmed by the very educational system that is supposed to help them achieve their dreams. Rural gifted students suffer tremendous emotional, cognitive and psychological damage from the current inadequate gifted programs. Society is also harmed, as the contributions that could be made by these children are lost.

Dr. Kordosky's book investigates the impact of the current system of educating gifted students in rural communities. Furthermore, a cost effective rural TAG program reform intervention is provided as an alternative to the current practices that Dr.Kordosky describes as "...unethical educational malpractice that hurts not only society, but the very children that have the greatest potential to serve humankind."

Dr. Don Kordosky has committed himself to initiating and perpetuating change in how rural gifted children are served. Dr. Kordosky received a B.S. in Biology from Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri and a Masters of Science in Science Education from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. He received his Doctorate from Walden University where he developed a program with an emphasis on rural gifted education reform. Dr.Kordosky is one of only two public school administrators in Oregon to receive the "Distinguished Administrator" certification from the Oregon "Teacher Standards and Practices Commission." His current assignment is as Superintendent of the Oakridge School District in the Cascade Mountains of central Oregon. Dr. Kordosky is the driving forcebehind "KOR-EDUCATION," a group that focuses on catalyzing the evolution of public education through system changes.