Mara Sapon-Shevin

Mara Sapon-Shevin is a professor of inclusive education at Syracuse University.

She is a critic of gifted education^[1] and turned down an offer of a place for her daughter in a gifted education program on the grounds that "I would never have wanted to raise a child who thought that she was better or smarter than other people".^[2] She is also an advocate against bullying, especially bullying against perceived or actual members of the LGBT community.^{[citation needed]}

Books

• Playing Favorites: Gifted Education and the Disruption of Community, ISBN 0-7914-1980-0
• Because We Can Change the World: A Practical Guide To Building Cooperative, Inclusive Classroom Communities, ISBN 0-205-17489-2
• Widening the Circle : The Power of Inclusive Classrooms, ISBN 0-8070-3280-8

See also

• Teaching for social justice