A group of educators hope to desegregate city schools by phasing out the Department of Education’s “gifted and talented” programs and pulling back on school screening, among other recommendations. The ...

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 ...

New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is dividing education advocates with his calls to axe a gifted program in schools. Gifted programs have little standard regulation, but their ...

When schools or psychologists identify some kids as gifted, they’re implicitly identifying a whole lot more kids as not-gifted. This artificial distinction can do a lot of damage, both for those who ...