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 ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has spoken about integrating America’s largest education system in striking terms rarely heard from big city leaders. By Troy Closson New York decides which 4-year-olds ...

Schools are finding new, data-driven ways to re-approach gifted and talented programs -- with a focus on inclusivity.

Sophie Boudreau remembers the moment school first set her apart. A first grader was sent to a fifth-grade room and told to choose a "more appropriate" chapter book. The choice felt exciting, yet the ...

The air conditioner droned in a windowless room at Chapel Hill Middle School, where a girl sat alone and bored in the back corner while a boy and girl near her gabbed about their families. Among the ...

Kara Miller’s “Where did all the gifted programs go?” (June 2) recalled my education decades ago in Baltimore’s public school system, which did little to support gifted and talented students. Public ...

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 my jobs, both as a gifted resource specialist for a public school system and as a part-time consultant for other school divisions (in fact, even as a column writer for this Psychology Today blog) I ...

A major lawsuit against racial inequality in New York City’s public schools is moving forward. Already, local districts in the city were trying different measures to diversify schools. By Troy Closson ...

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 ...

Let me be explicit: I do not believe that saying a gifted child is bored by his schoolwork is irrelevant to the issue of solving those problems. But at the same time, I do not think that simply ‘being ...