Seattle Public Schools is dismantling its gifted and talented program, which administrators argued was oversaturated with white and Asian students, in favor of a more “inclusive, equitable and ...

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 ...

Gifted programs in schools have long been a topic of debate and discussion among parents, teachers, students, and school administrators. A plethora of studies and statistics have time and time again ...

One Pasco school is leading the state to expand and innovate teaching for its soaring group of gifted kids, catching the attention of some top educators. Jody Hess, Washington OSPI’s program ...

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. “Gifted” can be somewhat of a loaded term in education because it implies that some kids are better than others. While it is true that kids can have ...

Gifted programs could be shutting out millions of high-performing Black and Latino children from low-income families. Can districts fix their advanced education problem? By Troy Closson In New York ...

Apolonio "Polo" Trejo has made it his personal calling to help teachers better recognize "invisible characteristics" of gifted young students. Trejo, a bilingual educator and professor at Our Lady of ...

The debate over gifted programs in New York City public schools spilled into the mayoral race this week after Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani said he’d phase out those classes for ...

On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city’s public elementary school system would be gradually phasing out its gifted and talented program over the next few years. The ...

In r/Millennials, Speedygonzales24 posted about their experience growing up as a disabled student who was in a highly competitive school district and often felt like they were in the "academic trash ...