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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the great mysteries of American schooling is gifted education. You hear about it occasionally, particularly in elementary schools, but what does it do? I encountered not long ago a typically ...

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 ...

The beginning of the 2019 school year will be a time of planning and crystal-gazing. Teachers will plan their instructional agenda in a general way. Students will think about another year at school.

Myla Goldberg’s novel Bee Season opens with an account of a traumatic moment in Eliza Naumann’s young life: when she doesn’t get picked to be in her elementary school’s Talented and Gifted program.