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 ...

PATERSON — The entrance exam for the Gifted and Talented academy was longer and harder than any other test the children had ever taken. “It was like 20 pages,” said Jonas, a third grader. “I wasn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "In G/T, I learned quickly that much of my self-esteem came from academic praise and approval from adults," the author writes.

New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is dividing education advocates with his calls to axe a gifted program in schools. Gifted programs have little standard regulation, but their ...

A group of educators hope to desegregate city schools by phasing out the Department of Education’s “gifted and talented” programs and pulling back on school screening, among other recommendations. The ...

In Paterson, where the gifted and talented program has produced the state's top-ranked elementary school, officials hope to build on that success.

Allegations of foot-dragging in Montgomery County have led parents and a school board member to blast school administrators for excessive secrecy and an absence of progress on the county’s ...

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 ...

Seattle Public Schools is replacing its program for gifted students with a more "inclusive" and "equitable" program in an ongoing trend of states scrapping honors classes in the name of diversity. SPS ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — The Lafayette School Board voted to relocate the Gifted Magnet, French and Spanish Immersion programs from Paul Breaux Middle School to Edgar Martin Middle School. The School Board ...

"In G/T, I learned quickly that much of my self-esteem came from academic praise and approval from adults," the author writes. Alena Shafieva via Getty Images I don’t remember precisely when I first ...

I don’t remember precisely when I first heard the word “gifted,” but it must have been in early elementary school. I do remember being pulled out of my first-grade class and led to the fifth-grade ...