Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State Rep. Brenda Shields, R-St. Joseph, presents the first bill to be debated by the Missouri House Feb. 3, 2026. Her legislation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Lawmakers in the Missouri House are expected to approve a new round of legislation this week, including a ...

How do you tell if your child is gifted? Schools that have programs for gifted students are often able to identify them by using traditional screening methods, like group IQ tests, review of ...

School districts have historically relied on a referral-based process to identify students for gifted and talented programming. This means that teachers or parents nominate their students to take ...

Apolonio “Polo” Trejo has made it his personal calling to help teachers better recognize “invisible characteristics” of gifted young students. Trejo, a bilingual educator and professor at Our Lady of ...

An indepth look into the ways that DeKalb County students are identified for the district’s gifted program has resulted in changes that have made the process more inclusive. According to Dr. Norman ...

After a change in the law last year, Missouri could once again see efforts to expand the number of gifted programs in the state. Beginning in the 2024-25 school year, all school districts with more ...

In New York City, families sparred over whether a few thousand 4-year-olds should be funneled into gifted education programs. In Seattle, teachers disagreed on how to improve the dismal enrollment ...

A bill advancing to the Missouri Senate would require all public schools in the state to conduct universal gifted testing for ...

In 1994, 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education led to school desegregation, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that white students in Georgia were five times more likely than minority ...