Participating in a gifted and talented program improved high-ability students’ reading and math achievement, on average, nationwide, I found in a new study. However, in reading, these achievement ...

The father of four gifted children, Brad Rine of Metairie has no doubt that the specialized education they have received in Jefferson Parish public schools is, in fact, "special education." One day ...

The Thompson School District earned high praise from a state site visit to evaluate its gifted education program, including that the district could be a template for others in the state. Thompson ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crystal Scotten’s sixth-grade daughter used to love school. Now she seems to hate it, Scotten said. This year her school, Dana Middle in Point Loma, replaced its gifted program called GATE Seminar — ...

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 ...

The Caldwell County Board of Education will discuss possible changes to the school system's academically gifted program at its next work session scheduled for Tuesday, June 2. The meeting begins at 8 ...

RE-1 Valley School District’s gifted education program is seeing growth and making great strides as evidenced by a recent audit report by the state Gifted Education Monitoring team. Aubree Ross, ...

I don’t remember precisely when I first heard the word “gifted,” but it must have been in early elementary school. I do remember being pulled out of my first-grade class and led to the fifth-grade ...

There are nine-year-olds graduating from high school, 12-year-olds earning college degrees and 14-year-olds running artificial intelligence businesses. Child prodigies may be born with naturally high ...