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 ...

On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city’s public elementary school system would be gradually phasing out its gifted and talented program over the next few years. The ...

Chances are that back in school, you either knew someone who was very gifted or you actually were that kid (hey, how are you). However, just because academia was easy for you at the start doesn’t mean ...

Seattle Public Schools is dismantling its gifted and talented program, which administrators argued was oversaturated with white and Asian students, in favor of a more “inclusive, equitable and ...

A woman named Desi, who was one of those so-called gifted students during her adolescence, recently revealed that the program's true purpose wasn't to inspire and challenge the smart kids, but to keep ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to phase out New York City’s Gifted and Talented program — the democratic socialist’s latest move to revert to ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio’s era. Mamdani, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One Pasco school is leading the state to expand and innovate teaching for its soaring group of gifted kids, catching the attention ...