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 ...

"In G/T, I learned quickly that much of my self-esteem came from academic praise and approval from adults," the author writes. Alena Shafieva via Getty Images I don’t remember precisely when I first ...

A school-diversity panel created by Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to junk the gifted-and-talented programs and other forms of academic screening in city schools. Arguing that such programs perpetuate ...

In a reverse course from the previous administration, Mayor Eric Adams will not only keep the Gifted and Talented program, but he’s also expanding it in New York City schools. After former mayor Bill ...

Fresh off a first 100 days in office that in some respects have unearthed a number of major challenges for Mayor Eric Adams -- from backlash over COVID mandate decisions to homelessness to increasing ...

In 1994, 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education led to school desegregation, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that white students in Georgia were five times more likely than minority ...

The disproportionate percentage of white students in gifted programs has become a hot topic in Seattle in recent years. But historical documents in the school district archives show that this debate ...

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 ...

New York City’s controversial Gifted and Talented program for elementary schoolers will grow by roughly 1,000 seats — but will no longer use a test for preschoolers to determine admission, Mayor Adams ...

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 ...