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The mirage of the gifted child

Critics say the systems we use to educate the brightest kids are flawed and exclusionary. What if it’s the very premise of ...
I Was Enrolled In A 'Gifted' Program As A Kid. Years Later, I Discovered A Dark Side I Never Knew About.
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani reignited a debate over gifted education when he said he would do away with gifted kindergarten programs if elected. Testing young children for “giftedness” ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... About a decade after schools in Colorado started using universal testing to identify students who are gifted, white students and those from higher ...
One of the most divisive topics in education is gifted education. Even the word itself—gifted—has caused debate. The efficacy and equity of gifted programs came under fire in 2021 when New York City ...
In 1994, 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education led to school desegregation, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that white students in Georgia were five times more likely than minority ...
Houston ISD plans to test all second graders for the gifted-and-talented program this year, instead of testing all kindergartners as it has done for the past several years. HISD will administer ...
Testing for Gifted Programs that was scheduled for Saturday, January 21 has been rescheduled for Saturday, January 28. The locations and times remain the same: Bennett students: 8:45 a.m. at Bennett ...