The Mayor, First Lady, & Chancellor at a school (photo: Ed Reed/Mayor's Office) Last week, Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carranza announced that they will administer the controversial and ...

Academic testing has become a way of life for children trying to qualify for scholarship money or gain entrance into intensely competitive top-tier colleges and universities. “At this moment, about 40 ...

New York City’s specialized high schools and elementary school gifted and talented (G&T) programs share three notable features: They provide unique experiences that give students a leg up for the ...

The contract with the educational company that administers the Gifted & Talented test for public school preschoolers narrowly failed to win approval from the city’s education board Thursday, ...

The test for admission into New York City's gifted and talented public-school program has perennially led to nail-biting among parents. But this year, the anxiety has been ratcheted up even higher. As ...

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 ...