Houston ISD plans to test all second graders for the gifted-and-talented program this year, instead of testing all kindergartners as it has done for the past several years. HISD will administer ...

While gifted and talented education programs can be found in most public schools in the country, there is no federal standard ...

In the fifth grade, my family moved and I transferred to a new school district in New Jersey. In the West Orange school district, I gained admission into the High Aptitude Program, a gifted and ...

Our research shows that many NYC parents don’t prioritize academic rigor based on test scores when considering which schools are best.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Each year, kindergartners with Corpus Christi ISD are screened for the gifted and talented program. It's a two-part test focusing on things like skills, reading and math. If ...

After promising for more than seven years to overhaul the city’s controversial Gifted and Talented program, Mayor de Blasio announced major reforms Friday intended to address stark racial disparities ...

When New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani announced plans to phase out the city’s kindergarten gifted-and-talented programs, he did so in the name of equity. For years, these programs have ...

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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 ...