My recent interview with Edward Amend on helping unhappy intellectually gifted kids received many page views and Facebook Likes, so I decided to create the following post. It adapts, for parents, the ...

Their test scores are all exceptionally high. Their teachers see all of them as exceptionally bright. Their grades are all excellent. But this year of the thousands who qualified, only about 4,000 ...

Of the 3 million students identified as gifted in the U.S., English Language Learners are by far the most underrepresented. And nobody knows that better than 17-year-old Alejandra Galindo. "It's just ...

DC-area educrats are worried. It’s the usual: The budding scholars in Alexandria’s gifted ­classes are bright and curious enough to make any teacher beam, but these days they’re also an emblem of what ...

Alejandra's mom, Norma Galindo, is originally from El Salvador. Her dad, Arnulfo Galindo, is from Mexico. They've always known their daughter was bright beyond her years. With graduation right around ...