Source: Jenny Grant Rankin, Ph.D. I loved being in the Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program as a kid (abbreviated as GT in many states). Bearing this label in elementary school gave me ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Being “gifted” — and by that I mean smart — has been woven into my sense of self for so long that it has become one of ...

Seattle Public Schools is dismantling its gifted and talented program, which administrators argued was oversaturated with white and Asian students, in favor of a more “inclusive, equitable and ...

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 ...

Gifted programs could be shutting out millions of high-performing Black and Latino children from low-income families. Can districts fix their advanced education problem? By Troy Closson In New York ...

Privately admistered comprehensive IQ tests like the most recent editions of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale (WISC IV) or the Stanford Binet (SB V) are considered more reliable and valid, and offer ...

A woman named Desi, who was one of those so-called gifted students during her adolescence, recently revealed that the program's true purpose wasn't to inspire and challenge the smart kids, but to keep ...

I still remember the the first time I heard about “gifted” kids. I was fifteen, and taking part in a summer program for “gifted” Michigan high school students. Most of my classmates in the program had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of New Jersey's largest suburban school districts is making a big change in its programming for high-performing students over ...