Looking back on my educational journey, I recently reflected on my classroom experiences from kindergarten to fourth grade. The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I ...

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 ...

Many gifted children do not stand out in class: their great potential is hidden behind distractions, demotivation, and uneven ...

Schools have generally been working hard to meet the special educational needs of an array of students — those with learning disabilities, those learning English, those with behavioral issues and ...

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 ...

The theme of each school’s tree represented topics students are learning about in the classroom.

Academic success is as much dependent on how students feel about themselves as the letter grades that fill their transcripts. In fact, the two might be more correlated than they appear. When I was in ...

All gifted children and teenagers are special, and naturally they will have specific needs. Fortunately, gifted children and teenagers are the subject of many parenting books. There is a great deal of ...

The Washington Post editorial board slammed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani Friday for "holding back gifted students in the name of equity" following his proposal to phase out gifted ...

Gifted children tend to obsess over existential realities. Their parents, in turn, struggle with addressing their worries, ...