District 181 slows down transition plan for gifted program
While the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 Board has agreed to give the administration more time to refine a transition plan for the next school year, approval has been given for a five-week accelerated math program for 50 seventh-grade students.
Pioneer Local
April 30, 2012
Parents Take Gamble for Top School Slots
As competition has intensified for slots at the city's elite public and private schools, a growing number of parents are pursuing both options, anxious to secure a top education for their children.
Wall Street Journal
April 29, 2012
How are gifted young people cared for in Ireland?
EARLIER THIS MONTH, a four-year-old British girl became one of the youngest people to join Mensa when she achieved an IQ score of 159 – just one point below Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein.
The Journal
April 29, 2012
'Gifted' Ladner teen applies high-tech talent
Career paths—sometimes you stumble across them.
South Delta Leader
April 28, 2012
Support for gifted and talented students revived
Beginning next fall, parents of gifted and talented children will have support at each Baraboo school.
Baraboo News Republic
April 27, 2012
Nurturing the gifted child
When Rohit Vishwanath (name changed), from Thiruvananthapuram, was only three he shocked his parents with his memory.
Deccan Herald
April 26, 2012
U-46 minority students more often accepted to gifted programs
Hispanic and black students in Elgin Area School District U-46 were accepted into the district's gifted high school academy at a higher rate than their white counterparts, a former director of gifted education testified Wednesday during the federal bias suit against the district.
Daily Herald
April 25, 2012
Gifted education expert testifies for U-46 in bias trial
An expert in gifted education testified Tuesday in the bias case against Elgin Area School District U-46 that the district's bilingual gifted program enabled students with limited English proficiency to take on complex content and learn at a higher level.
Chicago Daily Herald
April 24, 2012
Cuts force schools to nix gifted programs
Hamilton City Schools cut full-time gifted programs due to budget concerns.
Middletown Journal
April 24, 2012
Sixteen local finalists in 2012 Governor's Honor Program
There are 16 Muscogee County School District students named as finalists for the Georgia Governor’s Honors Program (GHP).
WTVM
April 23, 2012
Cuts force schools to nix gifted programs
Hamilton City Schools cut full-time gifted programs due to budget concerns.
Dayton Daily News
April 23, 2012
Finalists named for Ark school for gifted students
The field of candidates to be director of Arkansas' school for gifted high school juniors and seniors has been narrowed to two.
KATV
April 22, 2012
Parents group says Mankato's gifted and talented students are being under-served
Derek Engen was bored in his sixth-grade math class last fall. He went from being a student who loved school, who excelled on the Math Masters team, who scored well on tests, to a kid his mother described as “completely miserable.”
The Free Press
April 21, 2012
Big 9 schools offer variety of gifted services
Schools in the Big 9 conference have a range of gifted and talented programs that use a variety of models.
The Free Press
April 21, 2012
Children Who Ace City's Gifted Test Outnumber Seats 4 to 1
“We just said goodbye to our last 175,” said Donna Taylor, principal of the Brooklyn School of Inquiry, referring to the 175 parents who toured her school in a single day — the last of the 800 she had shown around the building in the days leading up to Friday, the deadline for families to apply to gifted and talented programs.
NY Times Schoolbook
April 20, 2012
Shift in city’s priorities seen as gifted program denied expansion
Every morning, Tim Smith and his nine-year-old son leave their Bronx home at 7:30 a.m., catch a MetroNorth train to 125th Street and then board the M60 bus into Queens — all so the third-grader can attend P.S. 85 in Astoria, home to one of New York City’s handful of citywide gifted-and-talented programs.
Gotham Schools
April 20, 2012
Accelerated education, taken to the nth degree
The big news out of New York City is that the admissions test for the city’s gifted kindergarten programs is about to get tougher.
Kansas City Star
April 19, 2012
Peru schools keeps GATE "pull-out" program
Peru elementary school board and Superintendent Mark Cross Wednesday said they will keep the Gifted and Talented Education program’s pull-out option.
News Tribune
April 19, 2012
The Nation's Top Growing Preschool Academy, The Learning Experience®, Opens in Manhattan
The Learning Experience®, the nation's top growing early learning academy for children 6 weeks to 5 years old, announced today it has opened its first Manhattan location.
Sacremento Bee
April 18, 2012
New principal named for Encinal School
Sharon A. Burns, principal of a Mountain View elementary school of 582 students, will likely be Encinal School's new principal.
The Almanac
April 18, 2012
A Plea for the Orion Program
Lindenhurst resident and parent Linda McKee urges a second-look at the recently cut gifted and talented program, and offers a suggestion to more fairly evaluate potential further 2012-13 school budget cuts.
Lindenhurst Patch
April 17, 2012
New Study Identifies 'Opportunity Gap' for Students
Educators have long studied the achievement gap, in which black and Hispanic pupils and low-income students of all races perform at much lower levels than their white, Asian and better-off peers.
New York Times
April 17, 2012
Super-geeks graduate; present research findings
Chosen from among over 120,000 students, 18 teens graduate after completing unique Education Ministry program for 'super gifted'.
YNET News
April 17, 2012
Testing, Tutoring and Worrying Occupy City School Parents
Testing, striving and tutoring are very much in the news on this warm April day, the first back from spring break for public school students and staff.
NY Times
April 16, 2012
Tutoring Surges With Fight for Middle School Spots
As their parents sat anxiously in a waiting room, five children were sharpening their test-taking skills in a tutoring center in TriBeCa, underlining words that might hold clues to the answers and crossing off the illogical multiple-choice options intended to trip them up.
NY Times
April 15, 2012
Tell-tale signs of a genius child
Four-year-old Heidi Hankins from Winchester is said to have an IQ of 159 - just one point below that of Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
BBC News
April 14, 2012
Is your child gifted?
Even the most pragmatic parent will at one time or another think their progeny is a prodigy.
Herald Sun
April 14, 2012
Parents Spend Thousands on Test-Prep to Get Kids into 'Gifted' Kindergartens
Stressed parents, squirming kids, expensive prepping for standardized tests -- welcome to the world of applying to kindergarten.
ABC News
April 13, 2012
The race for high schools for the gifted
Students in Hanoi and HCM City have been gearing up in the sprint stage to intensively prepare for the entrance exams for high schools for the gifted.
VietNamNet Bridge
April 13, 2012
High test scores earn chance for gifted summer classes
About 200 middle and junior high school students in San Luis and Somerton have passed college entrance exams that represent the first step in qualifying to attend summer classes that Johns Hopkins University offers to gifted students.
Yuma Sun
April 11, 2012
Is “Gifted and Talented” Segregation by Another Name?
Who is gifted and talented in the Atlanta metro area?
Dropout Nation (web)
April 11, 2012
Gifted Students: Scared of... Tests? Part 1
Legitimate test anxiety. Maybe being gifted isn't so straightforward after all.
Psychology Today
April 11, 2012
Conway student achieves perfect score on SAT
Sigan Chen is in rare company academically.
Log Cabin Democrat
April 10, 2012
Gifted Education not meant to give advantage
The Gifted Education Programme is not meant to prepare children for exceptional performance at the PSLE, nor to give them an added advantage, said Ms Sim Ann, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Education.
Asia One
April 10, 2012
Budget cuts shouldn't target our gifted city students
My daughter and son are currently enrolled in the Pittsburgh Public Schools' Gifted Center, while also enrolled at a local private school.
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
April 10, 2012
Westford Teenager Represents New England in Global Science Camp
Westford Academy's Erin Shaughnessy joined 253 other teenagers from around the world in an exploration of science at Honywell's Leadership Challenge Academy last month
Westford Patch
April 9, 2012
Education Department hikes budget for Special Education centers by 50%
THE Department of Education has increased the budget allocation for Special Education centers in the elementary level nationwide by more than 50 percent to properly respond to the needs of gifted children and those with learning disabilities.
The Manilla Standard
April 8, 2012
Janesville School District to take second look at gifted program
Janesville School Board members Tuesday are expected to decide whether to expand the district’s gifted and talented program, but the board’s president said budget constraints could doom the proposal.
The Janesville Gazette
April 7, 2012
Justice Department to look into discrimination against students with disabilities
Several recent news stories have underscored the vulnerability of children with special needs.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
April 7, 2012
Programs for Talented Youth receives grant to aid low-income gifted students
Vanderbilt University’s Programs for Talented Youth at Peabody College will offer accelerated academic opportunities for up to 60 low-income gifted students through a $232,000 grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, renewable for up to three years.
Vanderbilt University News
April 6, 2012
GB schools to offer academy for gifted
A new opportunity will soon be available for academically gifted students in the Green Bay School District.
WLUK
April 5, 2012