ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. — It was 7:58 a.m., and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness ...
"I was supposed to have a Pulitzer Prize by now, but instead, I can't even make rent most of the time. I have clearly failed.
WOODVILLE — While other schools are asking students and parents to sell chocolate bars and scented candles to raise money for school projects, two Woodmore Middle School teachers have found a way to ...
NORTHFIELD — Fewer students will qualify for the Northfield School District's accelerated courses in math and language arts, based on new criteria unveiled this summer. Superintendent Pete Bretones ...
Adults who were enrolled in the Gifted And Talented Education program (GATE) decades ago as children are now questioning if they were unknowingly being covertly trained by the CIA. Anna Mills, known ...
The existence of fewer gifted programs in local public schools has renewed fears of families leaving Brooklyn for the suburbs. “Gifted and talented was a building block of a strong neighborhood in ...
What does it take to find the country’s most promising, academically talented students? In wealthier enclaves, where gifted education programs often flourish, it can be simply a matter of testing to ...
It’s no secret that gifted and honors classes are often whiter and wealthier than their schools as a whole. At every stage of students’ educational careers, the pipeline to academically advanced study ...
HAMILTON – Each October, the Hamilton Attendance Center’s gifted (Discover) classes paint pumpkins for a contest. This is required for the second through sixth grades, but is optional for the seventh- ...
When I was in elementary school, I was selected for my school’s gifted program, which allowed me to leave class to learn with the handful of other gifted students in my grade, to work ahead in my ...
More than 30 years ago, Rockville Centre began a gradual but determined effort to do away with gifted classes in its elementary schools as well as many of the tracked classes at the middle and high ...