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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joni Lakin is affiliated with Riverside Insights as the author of the Cognitive Abilities Test (R), Form 8. She receives U.S. federal funding for her academic research. After years of relying on a ...

The Education Department will administer an entrance exam for its gifted and talented programs to four-year-olds this spring -- but it will be the last time. The city’s gifted and talented programs ...

Is getting your child into a gifted-and-talented program a mark of good parenting? How you answer may depend largely on your race or ethnicity, according to new research. Allison Roda, an assistant ...

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 ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — The Joplin School District is changing up how it identifies its best and brightest. “We are trying to take that guesswork out. We’re trying to ensure that there’s not a kid that’s missed ...

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 ...