The father of four gifted children, Brad Rine of Metairie has no doubt that the specialized education they have received in Jefferson Parish public schools is, in fact, "special education." One day ...

Students are participating in "Ultimate Survival," a Gifted and Talented Education program offered through Kings Canyon ...

While criticisms of gifted education are not new, they have grown increasingly absurd. In New York, writer Katie ...

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 ...

Public schools in other states offer more support for gifted children than Massachusetts does. It doesn’t have to be that way. I didn’t think much about gifted and talented programs until I saw my ...

What's old is new again: Politicians are once again trying to water down gifted and talented programs in the name of "equity" - or even kill them outright. In 2021, California schools adopted a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I don't remember precisely when I first heard the word "gifted," but it must have been in early elementary school. I do remember ...

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 ...

States with formal policies around gifted and talented programs tend to identify more English learners and students with disabilities for those programs, according to a new study from NWEA, a ...

LOWER MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) -- The issue of education has become front-and-center in the race for New York City mayor, as the candidates presented starkly different plans for the future of the ...

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 ...

There are nine-year-olds graduating from high school, 12-year-olds earning college degrees and 14-year-olds running artificial intelligence businesses. Child prodigies may be born with naturally high ...