Dr. Sujatha A. Krishna Rao, author of ‘Widening Horizons for Educating the Gifted and General Education’, is an educational and corporate training consultant with a diverse background in psychology, education and management. She offers an enlarged and revised edition of ‘Widening Horizons’ as an eye-opening and inspiring guidebook for educators worldwide – school teachers, teacher educators, researchers, educational policy makers and administrators, and given its simple and lucid style, also parents. The book examines vital issues that are relevant not only for ‘education of the gifted’ but also for ‘education in general’ and ‘broadens horizons’ regarding both.

200 out of every 1000 children (who together constitute children who are in the top 10% of their age group on any ability) are gifted in some important way and can make outstanding contributions in various fields. But because most schools focus on the ‘average’ child, the rights and needs of...