New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani reignited a debate over gifted education when he said he would do away with gifted kindergarten programs if elected. Testing young children for “giftedness” ...

The debate over gifted programs in New York City public schools spilled into the mayoral race this week after Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani said he’d phase out those classes for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Testing for Gifted Programs that was scheduled for Saturday, January 21 has been rescheduled for Saturday, January 28. The locations and times remain the same: Bennett students: 8:45 a.m. at Bennett ...

During a visit to Stono Park Elementary School, Elizabeth Uptegrove watched a fourth grade student play a round of Apples to Apples, a word-association game. The boy was better known for his ...