Participating in a gifted and talented program improved high-ability students’ reading and math achievement, on average, nationwide, I found in a new study. However, in reading, these achievement ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, 3 miles and a world apart. In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in ...

NEW YORK — Communities across the United States are reconsidering their approach to gifted and talented programs in schools as vocal parents blame such elite programs for worsening racial segregation ...

When the state reworked the formula for funding education in 2005, gifted education programs suffered, teachers said. For the most part larger districts have been able to keep their programs, although ...

When New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani suggested ending gifted education for young children, the response was instant and intense. His idea to phase out gifted programs until third grade, ...

New York City officials announced plans this month for its school system, the country’s largest, to phase out its program for gifted and talented students. The screening test the city has given to ...

After this school year, the city’s public schools are doing away with the gifted education identification test used to sort kids in the early years. The test, which is taken by students as young as 4 ...

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In an era when demands for “equity” have inspired efforts to eliminate the SAT and defund charter schools, it’s no great surprise that gifted education has also been under attack. Thankfully, de ...

Mark Twain wrote to a reporter who was checking on whether the great author was still among the living: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” That same thing can be said about the death of ...

Your March 27, 2008, Technology Counts special issue on science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, education provided critical insight into helping bridge the gap between what is taught in ...