Lawmakers in the Missouri House are expected to approve a new round of legislation this week, including a measure that would require school districts to expand existing efforts to screen all students ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Testing young children for “giftedness” has a long history, but experts say there’s not much science to back the process. Credit: Cavan Images/Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...

A bill advancing to the Missouri Senate would require all public schools in the state to conduct universal gifted testing for ...

Current law in Missouri requires schools to have a program if 3% of its students are identified as "gifted," but it doesn't require screenings.

In the fifth grade, my family moved and I transferred to a new school district in New Jersey. In the West Orange school district, I gained admission into the High Aptitude Program, a gifted and ...

When I was a kindergartner in the 1980s, the “gifted” programming for my class could be found inside of a chest. I don’t know what toys and learning materials lived there, since I wasn’t one of the ...