The highest caliber education programs at New Hanover County Schools have a race problem, with students from wealthier white families far more likely to be identified as "gifted" than their peers from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I was in elementary school, I was selected for my school’s gifted program, which allowed me to leave class to learn with the ...

Linda Robinson teaches a gifted fourth-grade class at Fox Road Elementary School in Raleigh in this 2017 file photo. Robinson is the past president of the North Carolina Association for the Gifted and ...

When Jovania Lewis talks with parents from Durham Public Schools, her advice comes from experience. "I have gone through different phases of trying to make sure they’re getting academic rigor and ...

One young woman who was in the gifted and talented program at school throughout her life says that even though she excelled academically, she still felt inadequate. Growing up, Sneha Santosh, now 20 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Second grade is a big year for testing – not just for reading and math, but also for potential learning disabilities and services like gifted education. About 8% of Alabama children are identified as ...

When I was in elementary school, I was selected for my school’s gifted program, which allowed me to leave class to learn with the handful of other gifted students in my grade, to work ahead in my ...

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.