ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. — It was 7:58 a.m., and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness ...

When I was in elementary school, I was selected for my school’s gifted program, which allowed me to leave class to learn with the handful of other gifted students in my grade, to work ahead in my ...

WOODVILLE — While other schools are asking students and parents to sell chocolate bars and scented candles to raise money for school projects, two Woodmore Middle School teachers have found a way to ...

When I was seven I got pulled out my second grade class and sent off to GATE--Gifted And Talented Education. If I recall, they basically just looked our CAT scores and picked the top ten percentile ...

In Texas public schools, students who show great promise are supposed to be enrolled in gifted and talented programs where they get extra attention, more challenging work, and with it more funding.

Parents of gifted students are often the most vocal parents at schools. But in Duval County, gifted parents don’t always speak with one voice. Over the past year, parents of gifted students have ...

Why more girls than boys enter the programs is unclear, though there are some theories. Among the most popular is the idea that young girls are favored by the standardized tests the city uses to ...

It’s no secret that gifted and honors classes are often whiter and wealthier than their schools as a whole. At every stage of students’ educational careers, the pipeline to academically advanced study ...

In the Houston Independent School District, students of color are so under-represented that one researcher has called gifted classes there “a clear case of segregation.” Fernando Aguilar plays with ...

More than 30 years ago, Rockville Centre began a gradual but determined effort to do away with gifted classes in its elementary schools as well as many of the tracked classes at the middle and high ...