Research evidence for two education issues that have come up in the New York City mayoral election: gifted education and small class sizes.

Gifted programs could be shutting out millions of high-performing Black and Latino children from low-income families. Can ...

Accumulated knowledge, wisdom, and on the ground practical experience in any given field can take many years if not decades to achieve. One individual who has been working to serve gifted students in ...

It is no longer enough to give equal opportunities to every student, as the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires.

John Merrow continues his series on the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act with a look at the law's effects on school programs for gifted students. In other words, no child is being left behind, ...

New York decides which 4-year-olds should be designated “gifted.” Many experts think that’s too young. Good morning. It’s ...

Nationwide, less than 7 percent of U.S. students participate in gifted education programs, according to an analysis of the most recent 2014 federal civil rights data. In part, that’s because states ...

FILE - In this Thursday Oct. 14, 2021, file photo, protesters at City Hall condemn Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to phase out the Gifted and Talented (G&T) public school program in New York. Public ...

Face it, the vast majority of people think that gifted children are the smart, high-achieving students in a special, sometimes elitist program at school. It’s a universal misperception. When I was an ...

Gotham’s gifted kids shouldn’t be the only ones getting a well-rounded education. Yet that’s increasingly the case. If you have a 4-year-old in New York City, you’re likely having conversations around ...

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 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 ...