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Three million school children in the U.S. are identified as gifted. That's roughly the top 10 percent of the nation's highest achieving students. But Rene Islas, head of the National Association for ...

Whatever we call them, there are students who are ill served by grade-level curriculum—some because they have already mastered it, and others because they are far behind. One recent study found that, ...

Social and institutional barriers are keeping African American students from the ranks of gifted and talented programs. High school students attend a statistics class at Westlake High School in ...

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Although the authors of the Commentary “Gifted Ed. Is Crucial, But the Label Isn’t” make some very good points about the mismatch between gifted students’ abilities and the educational services they ...

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 ...

Of the 3 million students identified as gifted in the U.S., English Language Learners are by far the most underrepresented. And nobody knows that better than 17-year-old Alejandra Galindo. "It's just ...

Today, lots of different definitions of giftedness exist. This wasn't always the case. Prior to 1972, practically every school used one criterion and one criterion only to identify giftedness: an IQ ...

Parents often sense when their child seems to think, question, or learn differently from others their age. Some children show unusually strong curiosity, advanced reasoning, or a deep emotional ...