Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani announced plans to phase out the city's kindergarten gifted-and-talented programs, ...

One of the most divisive topics in education is gifted education. Even the word itself—gifted—has caused debate. The efficacy and equity of gifted programs came under fire in 2021 when New York City ...

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 ...

While gifted and talented education programs can be found in most public schools in the country, there is no federal standard for how they are carried out—or how students are selected for them. For ...

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.

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 ...

Mark Twain wrote to a reporter who was checking on whether the great author was still among the living: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” That same thing can be said about the death of ...

How Your High School is Evaluated in the College Admissions Process. Get the inside scoop on how colleges assess your high school and its course rigor. Featuring a form ...