When 10-year-old Cadence Silas admits she’s bored in class and says the teacher spends too much time trying to control the kids, her dad’s jaw tightens and he looks down for a quick moment. Charles ...

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 ...

The course is “Cloudy With a Chance of Science,” and James Ramirez places his hand-fashioned tin foil boat into a bin of water, squealing with excitement as he discovers it floats. The first grader ...

Today, my 4-year-old daughter will be put to the test. Along with thousands of other pre-kindergarten children in schools all over the city, she’ll take the Bracken School Readiness Assessment and ...

I don’t remember precisely when I first heard the word “gifted,” but it must have been in early elementary school. I do remember being pulled out of my first-grade class and led to the fifth-grade ...

In 1994, 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education led to school desegregation, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that white students in Georgia were five times more likely than minority ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Each year, kindergartners with Corpus Christi ISD are screened for the gifted and talented program. It's a two-part test focusing on things like skills, reading and math. If ...

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Source: Jenny Grant Rankin, Ph.D. I loved being in the Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program as a kid (abbreviated as GT in many states). Bearing this label in elementary school gave me ...

"In G/T, I learned quickly that much of my self-esteem came from academic praise and approval from adults," the author writes. Alena Shafieva via Getty Images I don’t remember precisely when I first ...