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 ...

Gifted programs in schools have long been a topic of debate and discussion among parents, teachers, students, and school administrators. A plethora of studies and statistics have time and time again ...

Categorizing children as either gifted or not-gifted is responsible for much of the confusion, controversy, ambivalence, and anxiety concerning gifted education. It’s also responsible for most of the ...

In the fifth grade, my family moved and I transferred to a new school district in New Jersey. In the West Orange school district, I gained admission into the High Aptitude Program, a gifted and ...

How do you tell if your child is gifted? Schools that have programs for gifted students are often able to identify them by using traditional screening methods, like group IQ tests, review of ...

DEKALB COUNTY, GA — DeKalb County is working to change the way blacks, Latinos, Asian, and other students are represented in the schools’ gifted program. Black and Hispanic students make up the ...

On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city’s public elementary school system would be gradually phasing out its gifted and talented program over the next few years. The ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I don’t remember precisely when I first heard the word “gifted,” but it must have been in early elementary school. I do remember ...