When New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani announced plans to phase out the city’s kindergarten gifted-and-talented programs, he did so in the name of equity. For years, these programs have ...

BRAINERD — This year’s kindergartners at Brainerd Public Schools will not undergo testing for the district’s gifted program that serves elementary students. Available for students in first through ...

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 ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the mayor’s race, plans if elected to replace the selective program, which became a symbol of segregation in public schools. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and ...

While gifted and talented education programs can be found in most public schools in the country, there is no federal standard for how they are carried out—or how students are selected for them.

Gifted programs could be shutting out millions of high-performing Black and Latino children from low-income families. Can districts fix their advanced education problem? By Troy Closson In New York ...

In New Orleans, a few hundred dollars could once help a family buy a “gifted” designation for their preschooler. As an education reporter for the city’s Times-Picayune newspaper several years ago, I ...