I don’t remember precisely when I first heard the word “gifted,” but it must have been in early elementary school. I do ...

A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...

Mayor Eric Adams and Department of Education Chancellor David C. Banks on Thursday announced the expansion of the New York City public school’s Gifted and Talented program serving elementary school ...

Do public school Gifted and Talented (G&T) programs improve outcomes, or unfairly favor affluent families? Last week, a viral New York article took up that question. Its author seemed to believe that ...

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 ...

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 ...

RE-1 Valley School District’s gifted and talented program is continuing to see success as evidenced by a presentation that program coordinator Aubree Ross and two of her students gave to the school ...

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 ...

Mayor Eric Adams injected a fresh dose of common sense into the city’s civic landscape by announcing the restoration of Gifted & Talented programs in public schools. Unfortunately, his plan has two ...

Last week’s announcement from Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks that the city plans to add 1,100 seats to gifted-and-talented programs in time for the start of the school year in ...

Critics say the systems we use to educate the brightest kids are flawed and exclusionary. What if it’s the very premise of giftedness that’s faulty?

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 ...