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

In a reverse course from the previous administration, Mayor Eric Adams will not only keep the Gifted and Talented program, but he’s also expanding it in New York City schools. After former mayor Bill ...

I Was Enrolled In A 'Gifted' Program As A Kid. Years Later, I Discovered A Dark Side I Never Knew About.

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

Public debate over gifted education tends to focus on fairness. Who gets to be called “gifted” and what sort of extras do ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York City’s elementary school gifted and talented program, long criticized for its stark failure to include Black, Hispanic ...

New York City’s controversial Gifted and Talented program for elementary schoolers will grow by roughly 1,000 seats — but will no longer use a test for preschoolers to determine admission, Mayor Adams ...

New York City is expanding its controversial gifted and talented student program. On Wednesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Education (DOE) Chancellor David C. Banks ...

After promising for more than seven years to overhaul the city’s controversial Gifted and Talented program, Mayor de Blasio announced major reforms Friday intended to address stark racial disparities ...

Scrapping a preschool standardized entrance exam as the admissions criterion for New York City’s kindergarten “Gifted and Talented” program more than doubled its enrollment of Black and Hispanic ...

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 ...

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 ...