The mayor unveiled a plan to add seats in the highly selective program for both kindergartners and third graders and to permanently replace an admissions test with universal screening. By Lola Fadulu ...

Dorchester District Two’s Gifted and Talented Education program (GATE) has been around since the early eighties. The goal of the program is to help students learn above grade level material at a ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. More students will have the chance to enroll in New York City’s gifted programs, officials ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Paterson school district officials allowed students to be interviewed on the condition that their full names not be published. PATERSON — The entrance exam for the Gifted and Talented ...

New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is dividing education advocates with his calls to axe a gifted program in schools. Gifted programs have little standard regulation, but their ...

Zohran Mamdani's New York City mayoral opponents ridiculed his plan to phase out the city's gifted program for public school kindergartners. Mamdani, the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee, ...

One way to support a child’s gifted development is with congregated gifted classes. These classes can be great, but they aren’t always the best way to address a particular child’s gifted learning ...

Data from the San Diego Unified School District show that it designates far fewer children as gifted and talented in schools with primarily Black, Latino and low-income students than it does in ...