These programs are designed to challenge kids who are ahead of their classmates, but have drawn controversy over inclusion.

The change began in 1985, when education theorist Jeannie Oakes wrote “Keeping Track,” a book that complained that tracking students created racially segregated classrooms.

Public schools in other states offer more support for gifted children than Massachusetts does. It doesn’t have to be that way. I didn’t think much about gifted and talented programs until I saw my ...

The state’s top court tossed out a lawsuit Thursday that claimed New York City’s gifted and talented programs — which mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to phase out — are racially biased ...

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 ...

Corpus Christi ISD has a lower percentage of students in gifted and talented programs compared to the Texas state average. The district's primary gifted and talented elementary school, Windsor Park, ...

The debate over gifted programs in New York City public schools spilled into the mayoral race this week after Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani said he’d phase out those classes for ...

Aziza Shuler is the Weekend Morning Anchor and Reporter at CBS News New York. Before arriving in New York, Aziza served as the weekend evening anchor and reporter at CBS News Philadelphia. New York ...

It is no longer enough to give equal opportunities to every student, as the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires.

I still remember the the first time I heard about “gifted” kids. I was fifteen, and taking part in a summer program for “gifted” Michigan high school students. Most of my classmates in the program had ...