Gifted and Talented

By YOAV GONEN
A faulty entrance exam may have excluded thousands of brainy teens from coveted seats at the city's nine specialized high schools, a study claims. Many students who weren't accepted at...

It would be hard to find a more advanced math class in public schools than the one Robert Sachs teaches at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. That's because it isn't really high school math.

Thousands of Britain's brightest pupils miss out on tailored teaching through gifted and talented programme

Charles Murray
College is usually pretty easy for the gifted who go into the humanities or social sciences. Those who major in mathematics, engineering and the hard sciences have to pass a tough curriculum, but all the other gifted can readily find undemanding courses in today's colleges that allow them to get a degree without approaching their intellectual limits.

Schools were yesterday accused of failing to stretch the brightest pupils as standards among seven-year-olds dropped across all key subjects.

Stephen Brundage | Arab News
DHAHRAN: With the energy of a pep rally and the emotion of a family farewell, students from Saudi Aramco’s Summer Gifted Program celebrated their achievements and demonstrated their newfound...

Dear Mr. President:
“No Child Left Behind” is commendable, noble, and truly needed. Giving a minimum education to everyone in the country affords great benefits to all. Finding the Gifted and teaching them to be talented is even more important because these are the people who will become the next generation of leaders in business, politics and education. The problem is that so much of our energy and resources are dedicated to the first, that there is little left for the second.

An advocate says schools need special strategies for the gifted. TOO many teachers fear having very bright students in class because they feel ill-equipped to deal with them, according to a visiting campaigner on gifted children.

Sally Beisser has watched educational programs for Iowa's most talented students improve and expand over 30 years, but the Drake University professor is concerned that those efforts have been hurt by a federal push to bring lower-achieving classmates up to speed.

By ELISSA GOOTMAN and ROBERT GEBELOFF
A new analysis shows that children from the city’s poorest districts were offered a smaller percentage than last year of the entry-grade gifted slots in elementary schools.

Families that had expected to receive news in the mail about the gifted and talented programs that accepted their children instead received a surprise: The results were delivered over the weekend by a fleet of hired couriers driving black vans.

Pennsylvania is taking steps to make gifted education available to more students, but that has done little to quell long-standing tension between parents and school districts over how the state's brightest are educated.

Fewer Kindergarteners Will Take a Screening Test
Chancellor Joel Klein last year said he wanted to expand screening so that programs often dominated by well-connected and affluent white parents could include a more diverse group of students.

Pennsylvania is taking steps to make gifted education available to more students, but that has done little to quell long-standing tension between parents and school districts over how the state's brightest are educated.