Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani announced plans to phase out the city's kindergarten gifted-and-talented programs, ...

Gifted programs select on where students are, not how fast they can go. Identification should match the service and continue over time, not end in a one-time verdict.

While gifted and talented education programs can be found in most public schools in the country, there is no federal standard for how they are carried out—or how students are selected for them. For ...

Earlier this month, the New South Wales government announced it would roll out programs for gifted students in every public school in the state. This comes amid concerns gifted school students are not ...

I still remember the the first time I heard about “gifted” kids. I was fifteen, and taking part in a summer program for “gifted” Michigan high school students. Most of my classmates in the program had ...

While criticisms of gifted education are not new, they have grown increasingly absurd. In New York, writer Katie Arnold-Ratliff, for example, recently questioned whether student giftedness was a myth.

Public schools in other states offer more support for gifted children than Massachusetts does. It doesn’t have to be that way. I didn’t think much about gifted and talented programs until I saw my ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) attends a news conference on Oct. 1 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The Oct. 4 editorial “Damaging education in the name of equity” ...

Seattle Public Schools is replacing its program for gifted students with a more "inclusive" and "equitable" program in an ongoing trend of states scrapping honors classes in the name of diversity. SPS ...

Even as schools across the state brace for sky-is-falling budget cuts, the Tucson Unified School District program for gifted and talented students is prepping for dramatic growth in the next school ...

Source: Jenny Grant Rankin, Ph.D. I loved being in the Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program as a kid (abbreviated as GT in many states). Bearing this label in elementary school gave me ...