HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Gifted and talented test 'abnormalities' have put hundreds of parents on hold. According to HISD, the Iowa test maker reported the abnormalities during scoring of the kindergarten ...
Dear Teacher: My second-grader is always at the top of her class. The teacher has recommended that she be tested for the district’s gifted program. Since her admission to the program is based in part ...
News stories abound about girls suddenly outperforming boys in the very early grades, obscuring the fact that increasingly more boys than girls are taking “gifted” tests. Either way, Rosalind C.
City education officials revealed this month that they would begin searching for a new gifted admissions test in response to complaints about low minority representation in gifted programs and ...
Teachers at the Bloomingdale Head Start program in Manhattan tell Alexis Stewart that her 4-year-old son, Chase, is bright. “He knows about different fish, different birds, different species,” Ms.
I am standing in front of a group of parents, nearly fifty in number, who are gathered at tonight’s meeting to find out more about the school division’s gifted program. By their demeanor, they are a ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The New York City Department of Education (DOE) will administer its Gifted & Talented exam for the last time this spring, city officials announced. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced ...
At the start of Wednesday night’s contentious Panel for Educational Policy meeting, New York City officials were confident they had the votes to carry Mayor de Blasio’s controversial proposal to hold ...