This digest discusses research that documents the benefits of keeping gifted students together, the advantages and disadvantages of cluster grouping, and how to implement cluster grouping strategies. It argues that cluster grouping allows educators to come much closer to providing better educational services for groups of students with similar exceptional learning needs and that gifted students feel more comfortable when there are other students just like them in the class. Identification of gifted students for participation in the gifted cluster group is discussed, along with keeping progress records for gifted students in cluster groups and specific skills needed by cluster teachers. Cluster teachers should know how to recognize and nurture behaviors usually demonstrated by gifted students, create a learning environment in which all students will be stretched to learn, allow students to demonstrate and get credit for previous mastery of concepts, provide opportunities for faster pacing of new material, incorporate students' passionate interest into their independent studies, facilitate sophisticated research investigations and provide flexible grouping opportunities for the entire class. (CR)