When 10-year-old Cadence Silas admits she’s bored in class and says the teacher spends too much time trying to control the kids, her dad’s jaw tightens and he looks down for a quick moment. Charles ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — The Joplin School District is changing up how it identifies its best and brightest. “We are trying to take that guesswork out. We’re trying to ensure that there’s not a kid that’s missed ...

An indepth look into the ways that DeKalb County students are identified for the district’s gifted program has resulted in changes that have made the process more inclusive. According to Dr. Norman ...

Houston ISD plans to test all second graders for the gifted-and-talented program this year, instead of testing all kindergartners as it has done for the past several years. HISD will administer ...

Today, my 4-year-old daughter will be put to the test. Along with thousands of other pre-kindergarten children in schools all over the city, she’ll take the Bracken School Readiness Assessment and ...

Even as schools across the state brace for sky-is-falling budget cuts, the Tucson Unified School District program for gifted and talented students is prepping for dramatic growth in the next school ...

Seattle Public Schools is replacing its program for gifted students with a more "inclusive" and "equitable" program in an ongoing trend of states scrapping honors classes in the name of diversity. SPS ...

In 1994, 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education led to school desegregation, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that white students in Georgia were five times more likely than minority ...

Source: Jenny Grant Rankin, Ph.D. I loved being in the Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program as a kid (abbreviated as GT in many states). Bearing this label in elementary school gave me ...