Mediocrity has been the hallmark of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s nearly eight-year tenure at City Hall and he is leaving that mark on the city’s public school system. With 85 days left in office, he ...

The father of four gifted children, Brad Rine of Metairie has no doubt that the specialized education they have received in Jefferson Parish public schools is, in fact, "special education." One day ...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday announced a plan to gradually eliminate his city’s program for gifted and talented students in K-12 schools. Starting next fall, the nation’s largest ...

Participating in a gifted and talented program improved high-ability students’ reading and math achievement, on average, nationwide, I found in a new study. However, in reading, these achievement ...

Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s schools chancellor is a race-obsessed apparatchik for extreme leftist, anti-merit policy, ...

Gifted students have to check their privilege and get over themselves. It doesn’t matter whether they are minorities. It doesn’t matter whether they were brought to the United States as children. It ...

Mayor Eric Adams and Department of Education Chancellor David C. Banks on Thursday announced the expansion of the New York City public school’s Gifted and Talented program serving elementary school ...

Scarsdale, N.Y.: I would just like to throw something out as the debate over “gifted and talented” programs rages between the candidates for mayor. There are valid points being made on both sides of ...

Welcome back from the holidays, students — can you spell “integration”? Or better yet, define it? Probably not, since only 29 ...

Gifted and Talented programs are giving kids the academic nourishment they need to excel. The Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center in Dallas has programs that constantly rank as some of the best in ...

Many people believe that talent will out. Parents, teachers, and policy makers alike assume that 1) talent is easy to recognize; and 2) that talented individuals are invariably mature, motivated, and ...

Gifted students have to check their privilege and get over themselves. It doesn’t matter whether they are minorities. It doesn’t matter how poor their families may be. It doesn’t matter if they have ...