PATERSON — The entrance exam for the Gifted and Talented academy was longer and harder than any other test the children had ever taken. “It was like 20 pages,” said Jonas, a third grader. “I wasn’t ...

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” ...

How do you tell if your child is gifted? Schools that have programs for gifted students are often able to identify them by using traditional screening methods, like group IQ tests, review of ...

A St. Joseph legislator is aiming to require school districts statewide to provide universal screenings for all students before a certain grade level to identify ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a visit to Stono Park Elementary School, Elizabeth Uptegrove watched a fourth grade student play a round of Apples to Apples, a word-association game. The boy was better known for his ...

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note: Paterson school district officials allowed students to be interviewed on the condition that their full names not be published.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 ...

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 ...