Across classrooms and kitchen tables, adults still talk about “gifted” children as if brilliance were a fragile heirloom that ...

Extending beyond high achievement, your gifted learner is simply on a different intellectual level than kids of the same age. Maybe it’s time to seek out a specialized school for your gifted child. A ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It’s National Parenting Gifted Children Week. All kids have strengths, and there are some kids who are academically gifted. It seems that learning and studying are pretty easy for ...

Some Colorado school districts are trying new approaches to identifying gifted children among students of color and other underrepresented groups. Children identified as gifted can get extra attention ...

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 ...

Albuquerque students’ artwork and a poem about volcanoes, displayed at the 2019 National Association for Gifted Children conference. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

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The character of Marty Mauser is narcissistic and wise, teaching fellow gifted individuals how to create meaning in a way that won't ruin their lives.

Maybe your kid has an insane memory and an awe-inspiring creative streak, but can’t sit still in class. Or perhaps her math skills put yours to shame, but she’s paralyzed by perfectionism and ...

What follows will undoubtedly anger some, perhaps many of you. It concerns what I have no qualms about calling the institutional racism and elitism of so-called “gifted” education. These programs ...

ONE does not pay for genius in the coin of frustration or unhappiness; Dr. Lewis Terman proves conclusively that 1418 gifted adults — the famous Terman children of twenty-five years ago — are taller, ...