Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani announced plans to phase out the city’s kindergarten gifted-and-talented programs, ...

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani reignited a debate over gifted education when he said he would do away with gifted kindergarten programs if elected. Testing young children for “giftedness” ...

Editor’s note: Paterson school district officials allowed students to be interviewed on the condition that their full names not be published. PATERSON — The entrance exam for the Gifted and Talented ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is an ongoing controversy in America regarding the optimal age to test a child for entry into public school ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Lawmakers in the Missouri House are expected to approve a new round of legislation this week, including a measure that would require school districts to expand existing efforts ...

Testing young children for “giftedness” has a long history, but experts say there’s not much science to back the process. Credit: Cavan Images/Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...

During a visit to Stono Park Elementary School, Elizabeth Uptegrove watched a fourth grade student play a round of Apples to Apples, a word-association game. The boy was better known for his ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I was a kindergartner in the 1980s, the “gifted” programming for my class could be found inside of a chest. I don’t know what toys and learning materials lived there, since I wasn’t one of the ...