Students of color and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds remain underrepresented in gifted and talented programs, which offer academic enrichment beyond grade level. In Virginia’s ...

The state’s top court tossed out a lawsuit Thursday that claimed New York City’s gifted and talented programs — which mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to phase out — are racially biased ...

If elected, Mamdani said, he would phase out certain gifted programs in NYC schools. Matthew McDermott Bad news for Big Apple families: Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani says he’ll phase out gifted ...

The Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy in Avondale has an unusually high proportion of gifted students. About 850 Louisiana public schools have fewer than 10 gifted or talented children, ...

When New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced an expansion of the city’s Gifted and Talented program for elementary school kids on Thursday, it didn’t exactly come as a surprise. Adams has been clear ...

Idesha Fraser was proud to hear that a teacher at P.S. 282 in Park Slope had recognized her fourth-grade daughter’s academic potential and transferred her into the school’s Gifted and Talented program ...

JCPS identified just 380 of its 98,000 students last year as talented in art, dance, drama or music Fayette County Public Schools, about half the size of JCPS, served more than 1,700 talented kids ...

Apolonio "Polo" Trejo has made it his personal calling to help teachers better recognize "invisible characteristics" of gifted young students. Trejo, a bilingual educator and professor at Our Lady of ...

This article about gifted education was produced in partnership with The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. This is part 1 ...