In many places around the U.S., low-income and minority children are significantly underrepresented in gifted-and-talented programs. This seems to be the case whether the process for identifying ...

How do you tell if your child is gifted? Schools that have programs for gifted students are often able to identify them by using traditional screening methods, like group IQ tests, review of ...

A push by the Broward County School District to diversify its gifted education program appears to have made strides, identifying disadvantaged and minority students who otherwise might have been ...

School districts have historically relied on a referral-based process to identify students for gifted and talented programming. This means that teachers or parents nominate their students to take ...

As part of an overhaul of its gifted education program, Community Unit School District 308 administrators are looking to create individual plans for gifted students. The concept is in the early stages ...

Efforts to improve the quality of American education often focus, implicitly or explicitly, on students who are achieving at levels far below their peers. That emphasis is reflected in equity debates ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will delay screening second-graders for giftedness until students are consistently back in schools. That could mean waiting until the 2021 school year to identify ...

Angry parents say they want a do-over after the Department of Education botched the screening process for gifted-and-talented programs this year, producing unfair results. A suit filed in Manhattan ...

Katy Independent School District students in grades 1-4 and 6-11 may be referred for screening for the 2007-08 gifted and talented program. To initiate a referral, parents must complete a parent ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The New York City Department of Education (DOE) will administer its Gifted & Talented exam for the last time this spring, city officials announced. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced ...

Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy – his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) – in a coastal town in Florida. Frank’s plans for a normal school life for Mary are ...