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5 Ways to Embrace Advanced Learning Programs & Make Them Available to More Kids

Peg Tyre

Class Disrupted S5 E8: Providing a Human-Centered, Self-Actualizing Education to Every Student

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Are There Really ‘Fast’ & ‘Slow’ Learners? Study Could Help All Students Succeed

Alina Adams

State Auditor Finds Georgia’s Ed Programs for Gifted Students Need Improvement

Ross Williams

Gifted Summer Programs Skew White & Wealthy. Not Baltimore’s — And It’s Free

Asher Lehrer-Small

NYC Parents Rage: With No G&T Qualifying Test, Selection Process Is Chaos

Alina Adams

Students with Disabilities Often Overlooked in Gifted Programming

Jo Napolitano

Gifted & Talented 2.0: Why It's Time For Inclusive, Gifted-for-All Programs

Allison Roda, Yvette Jackson & Halley Potter

Where Are the Black Kids? Tracking, G&T and NYC's Top High Schools

Alina Adams

Confronting English Learners Stark Under-Representation in Gifted & Talented

Jo Napolitano

Eric Adams Is NYC’s Next Mayor. 3 Key Education Issues He’ll Face

Asher Lehrer-Small

Gifted and Talented Education Must Evolve or Die

Jo Napolitano

Free Tutoring Could Replace Gifted-and-Talented Education

Arthur Samuels

More G&T Classes Would Help School Diversity, Not Harm It

Alina Adams

Parents Say NYC Pre-K G&T Admissions Is Now a Confusing Mess

Alina Adams

How a Diverse School District Is Using a Strategy Usually Reserved for ‘Gifted’ Students to Help Everyone Overcome COVID Learning Loss

Joy Resmovits

Lessons From a Global Reckoning: New York City’s Implicit Bias Workshop Goes Remote in the Shadow of Budget Cuts and the Spotlight of Black Lives Matter

Zoë Kirsch

Equity Does Not Mean Everyone Gets Nothing: There’s a Better Way to Address New York City’s Gifted Gap

Colin Seale

Adams: Think Replacing NYC Gifted & Talent Programs With Magnet Schools Will Fix Low Student Achievement and Segregation? Think Again

Alina Adams

WATCH: How One Gifted and Talented Program in Texas Dropped Its Screening and Opened Up ‘Higher Order’ Learning to a Whole New Community

The 74

Regifted: The First 7 Questions to Ask About Mayor de Blasio’s Ambitious Plan to Integrate New York City’s Specialized High Schools

David Cantor

Raising Expectations at a San Antonio School Where Gifted Education is Applied to All

Beth Hawkins