In an era when demands for “equity” have inspired efforts to eliminate the SAT and defund charter schools, it’s no great surprise that gifted education has also been under attack. Thankfully, de ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rick Hess is a scholar who writes about K-12 and higher education. Dec 06, 2021, 10:05am EST Dec 10, 2021, 09:34am EST This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Thursday Oct. 14, 2021, file photo, protesters at City Hall condemn Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to phase out the ...

Some people overestimate a child's overall abilities based on the word "Gifted." Because the United States has a long history ...

Tamara Fisher was a K-12 gifted education specialist for a school district located on an Indian reservation in northwestern Montana and past president of the Montana Association of Gifted and Talented ...

While criticisms of gifted education are not new, they have grown increasingly absurd. In New York, writer Katie Arnold-Ratliff, for example, recently questioned whether student giftedness was a myth.

Schools are ending gifted and talented programs: They will no longer separate kids by ability. Why? To address “inequity.” “This is so misguided,” education researcher Michael Petrilli told me. “These ...

NEW YORK — Communities across the United States are reconsidering their approach to gifted and talented programs in schools as vocal parents blame such elite programs for worsening racial segregation ...

A new effort is trying to bring a fresh approach to gifted education—and it doesn’t take place in a school building. It’s a homeschool curriculum and support system, with a somewhat unusual boarding ...

Face it, the vast majority of people think that gifted children are the smart, high-achieving students in a special, sometimes elitist program at school. It’s a universal misperception. When I was an ...

Zohran Mamdani wants to phase out the city’s gifted program for kindergarten students if elected, a proposal that drew intense criticism and praise. By Troy Closson Some parents were distraught, ...

Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented. Youths are usually identified as ...