NEW YORK (WABC) -- The "Gifted and Talented" program in New York City is coming to an end. The Department of Education is phasing out the controversial exam that fast tracks some gifted elementary ...

After years of relying on a single controversial test at age 4 for admission to their gifted programs, New York City schools are about to embark upon a new way to identify gifted students. The city’s ...

A New York City education panel often seen as a rubber stamp for the mayor’s agenda issued Hizzoner a major rebuke early Thursday — effectively killing his plan to offer the city’s Gifted and Talented ...

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani reignited a debate over gifted education when he said he would do away with gifted kindergarten programs if elected. Testing young children for “giftedness” ...

Jennifer Senior’s New York Magazine piece on elementary school admissions reveals a disturbing world in which parents pay thousands of dollars to prep their four-year-olds for baby SATs. But it ...

Privately admistered comprehensive IQ tests like the most recent editions of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale (WISC IV) or the Stanford Binet (SB V) are considered more reliable and valid, and offer ...

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

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 ...

Members of a citywide education panel opposed to a plan to move forward with a controversial gifted and talented exam this year are frustrated over what they described as backroom dealing and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The New York City education panel rejected a testing contract for the administration of the controversial Gifted & Talented exam this spring — an exam offered to students as ...

Privately admistered comprehensive IQ tests like the most recent editions of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale (WISC IV) or the Stanford Binet (SB V) are considered more reliable and valid, and offer ...