English language learners are drastically under-represented in the nation’s gifted and talented elementary education programs. And the one tool advocates hoped would better identify them — non-verbal ...

Across classrooms and kitchen tables, adults still talk about “gifted” children as if brilliance were a fragile heirloom that ...

South Dakota is one of 10 states with no mandate or dedicated funding for gifted education. Since the state eliminated a funding match in 1995, more than 100 school districts have eliminated their ...

Accumulated knowledge, wisdom, and on the ground practical experience in any given field can take many years if not decades to achieve. One individual who has been working to serve gifted students in ...

There is an uncomfortable question coming up in education circles around the country. Teachers and parents are concerned about the make-up of students in gifted classes, specifically why children who ...

Seattle Public Schools is replacing its program for gifted students with a more "inclusive" and "equitable" program in an ongoing trend of states scrapping honors classes in the name of diversity. SPS ...

What distinguishes gifted children from other children? This question has been under debate for some time. However, as educators, understanding how gifted students learn in comparison to their peers ...

English-language learners are severely underrepresented in gifted education programs in the nation’s K-12 schools. While it’s something that ELL educators have likely long known, my colleagues Sarah ...

Those of us who care about gifted education usually see cuts to programs as a bad thing. But when budget cuts are done right, they can work to improve services for kids with all kinds of exceptional ...

Even as the school year gets underway for nearly every district across the United States, colleges, universities, and K-12 programs, both public and private, are in varying degrees of panic and ...

Angela Tanner is the founder and executive director of The Knox School of Santa Barbara, a private, K-8 school specifically designed for the gifted learner. What was the inspiration for the Knox ...

With the federal focus on bringing all students to minimum proficiency, high achievers might not get the challenges they need. Here’s one way to change that. With all of the focus on helping ...