The air conditioner droned in a windowless room at Chapel Hill Middle School, where a girl sat alone and bored in the back corner while a boy and girl near her gabbed about their families. Among the ...

Zohran Mamdani wants to phase out the city’s gifted program for kindergarten students if elected, a proposal that drew intense criticism and praise. By Troy Closson Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic ...

A major lawsuit against racial inequality in New York City’s public schools is moving forward. Already, local districts in the city were trying different measures to diversify schools. By Troy Closson ...

School administrators often see gifted education as a frill. Nationally, 3.3 million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bernd Weißbrod/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom Seattle is getting rid of its specialized public ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 18—Every teacher of talented and gifted students has a challenge the rest of us rarely consider. "What people do is they look ...

The problem haunting St. Louis school officials was unfortunately familiar to urban school systems the country over: What to do with gifted students? Bogged down in large classes and forced to move at ...

Sophie Boudreau remembers the moment school first set her apart. A first grader was sent to a fifth-grade room and told to choose a "more appropriate" chapter book. The choice felt exciting, yet the ...

Keeping gifted students focused and engaged in learning can be challenging. They complete tasks quickly, are often motivated to dig deeper into a subject, and are prone to boredom if not sufficiently ...

In my jobs, both as a gifted resource specialist for a public school system and as a part-time consultant for other school divisions (in fact, even as a column writer for this Psychology Today blog) I ...

Let me be explicit: I do not believe that saying a gifted child is bored by his schoolwork is irrelevant to the issue of solving those problems. But at the same time, I do not think that simply ‘being ...