A researcher outlines what schools need to do to provide better support for Hispanic bilingual kids and their parents.

Since the inception of “Gifted and Talented” programs, we have operated based on the idea that children are either born with rare and exceptional intellectual capacity, or they are not.

Mediocrity has been the hallmark of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s nearly eight-year tenure at City Hall and he is leaving that mark on the city’s public school system. With 85 days left in office, he ...

A student who is gifted or talented is usually identified as being in the top 5% of intelligence and capability of students their age. Giftedness refers more to a student’s capabilities than ...

Adults who were enrolled in the Gifted And Talented Education program (GATE) decades ago as children are now questioning if they were unknowingly being covertly trained by the CIA. Adults who were ...

It’s a reality that’s rattled the education world for years: Black and Latino students are far less likely than their white and Asian peers to be assigned to gifted-and-talented programs.

“It doesn’t make sense that gifted and talented is so overwhelmingly white and Asian when we know there are black and brown kids who can do this, too,” said Eric Crump, the father of a black ...

But the Office for Gifted and Talented disbanded in the early 1990s, budgets were cut, and most programs withered away. In Baron’s eyes, it was a huge loss.

States with formal policies around gifted and talented programs tend to identify more English learners and students with disabilities for those programs, according to a new study from NWEA, a ...

The goal of gifted and talented programs is not to create genius but to open the doors to desirable professions that combine the maximum financial rewards with the minimum physical effort.

Dorchester District Two’s Gifted and Talented Education program (GATE) has been around since the early eighties. The goal of the program is to help students learn above grade level material at a ...

Americans who were part of 'gifted and talented' education programs in the 1980s and 1990s believe they were part of a secret government intelligence program. The Gifted And Talented Education ...