In New Orleans, a few hundred dollars could once help a family buy a “gifted” designation for their preschooler. As an education reporter for the city’s Times-Picayune newspaper several years ago, I ...

Some Colorado school districts are trying new approaches to identifying gifted children among students of color and other underrepresented groups. Children identified as gifted can get extra attention ...

Across classrooms and kitchen tables, adults still talk about “gifted” children as if brilliance were a fragile heirloom that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linda Robinson teaches a gifted fourth-grade class at Fox Road Elementary School in Raleigh in this 2017 file photo. Robinson is the past president of the North Carolina Association for the Gifted and ...

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Schools have generally been working hard to meet the special educational needs of an array of students — those with learning disabilities, those learning English, those with behavioral issues and ...

After just a week of school under their belts, thousands of Houston ISD elementary and middle school students will begin taking adaptive and standardized tests. HISD requires certain exams at the ...