Carolyn M. Callahan, Ph.D., is Commonwealth Professor of Education at the University of Virginia and coprincipal investigator of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Frances A. Karnes, Ph.D., is a retired professor of education from The University of Southern Mississippi. They have collaborated on a number of articles and books pertaining to gifted education. Kristen R. Stephens, Ph.D., is an associate professor of the practice in the program in education at Duke University.