When some parents think of high-achieving or gifted students, what comes to mind is a child who shines in every aspect of life — one who can be expected to get straight As in school, have tons of ...

There’s a remarkable and welcome transformation happening in gifted education. Many educators are moving away from identifying some children as "gifted"—and everyone else therefore as "not gifted"—and ...

Face it, the vast majority of people think that gifted children are the smart, high-achieving students in a special, sometimes elitist program at school. It’s a universal misperception. When I was an ...

This post is by Melissa Daniels, the Director of High Tech Middle Chula Vista in California. When I was in fifth grade, I was in a gifted and talented program in a small town in south Georgia. Each ...

A group of seven and eight-year-old kids cluster around tables, solving math problems designed for students five grades ahead of them. They’re asked to add and subtract different amounts of minutes ...

Marion County Schools released more details on the changes to its gifted program. Parents of the school district's 80 gifted students have been clamoring for more details on the changes to ...

I may dislike the way gifted education is done because I was once overlooked for a gifted program. Blame it on a clerical error. Three of my middle-school friends ...

Gifted and talented children display intellectual, creative and artistic abilities that set them apart from their peers. These students tend to be quick learners and natural leaders who excel in a ...

In an era when demands for “equity” have inspired efforts to eliminate the SAT and defund charter schools, it’s no great surprise that gifted education has also been under attack. Thankfully, de ...

Gifted education in elementary schools has been accused of furthering racism and elitism (“Who Is Gifted?” The Future of Everything, Aug. 11). There is also controversy about how students should be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rick Hess is a scholar who writes about K-12 and higher education. Dec 06, 2021, 10:05am EST Dec 10, 2021, 09:34am EST This ...

Among the cities most affected by the national controversy over racism is Charlottesville. And after the 2017 white supremacist Unite the Right rally there, the city’s education leaders began to make ...