In New York City, thousands of students deemed “gifted” by the Department of Education’s own assessment standards are denied access to gifted and talented public school programs due to the lack of ...

Critics say the systems we use to educate the brightest kids are flawed and exclusionary. What if it’s the very premise of ...

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 ...

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, So, so discouraging but not so surprising — New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani wants to abolish the city’s gifted-and-talented program ...

Ohio’s Republican lawmakers have written an anti-DEI bill for schools so vague that it could harm special needs, disabled, or homeless students unintentionally. That’s what happens when lawmakers are ...

I don’t remember precisely when I first heard the word “gifted,” but it must have been in early elementary school. I do remember being pulled out of my first-grade class and led to the fifth-grade ...

Looking back on my educational journey, I recently reflected on my classroom experiences from kindergarten to fourth grade. The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I ...

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 Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is dividing education advocates with his calls to axe a gifted program in schools. Gifted programs have little standard regulation, but their ...