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 ...
Crystal Scotten’s sixth-grade daughter used to love school. Now she seems to hate it, Scotten said. This year her school, Dana Middle in Point Loma, replaced its gifted program called GATE Seminar — ...
In an era when demands for “equity” have inspired efforts to eliminate the SAT and defund charter schools, it’s no great surprise that gifted education has also been under attack. Thankfully, de ...
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 ...
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 Thompson School District earned high praise from a state site visit to evaluate its gifted education program, including that the district could be a template for others in the state. Thompson ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Communities across the United States are reconsidering their approach to gifted and talented programs in schools as vocal parents blame such elite programs for worsening racial ...
The future of New York City’s gifted education program is in question. As the issue becomes more politically polarizing in communities across the country, the flawed notion that getting rid of gifted ...
RE-1 Valley School District’s gifted education program is seeing growth and making great strides as evidenced by a recent audit report by the state Gifted Education Monitoring team. Aubree Ross, ...
Widespread concerns over equity in education have helped fuel a decline in opportunities for gifted minds across Massachusetts, advocates argue, leaving child prodigies and their parents frustrated ...