As they mature, some gifted children with extraordinarily advanced intellectual skills adjust well socially and emotionally. However, others tend to develop psychological issues including anxiety and ...

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 ...

While every child deserves to be treated like they're "gifted," whether it's in an academic context or at home indulging in passions and unique interests, many truly gifted kids — characterized by ...

Author Alissa Quart joins Larry Mantle to talk about the current trend to nurture and even create giftedness in children. Her new book Hothouse Kids explores the many classes, specialized camps, ...

Around one or two children in 200 are gifted. Gifted children have the same psychological needs as any other kids — the need to be loved, to feel secure and to fulfill their potential. The dividing ...

Q.Our 8-year-old son is a happy, healthy second-grader but we don't know whether to keep him in his small Catholic school or put him in public school. He began to read on his own at 5 and performs ...

When news broke late last week that behemoth education company Pearson had bungled the scoring of standardized tests used for admissions to gifted education programs in New York City, it united Gotham ...

There is a definition by Francesco Guccini that Claudia Zanella holds dear to describe her ten-year-old daughter Penelope: 'She is like Culodritto, with eyes wide open to the world like ...

Sophie Boudreau remembers the moment school first set her apart. A first grader was sent to a fifth-grade room and told to choose a "more appropriate" chapter book. The choice felt exciting, yet the ...

A New Jersey 6-year-old is proving to be head of the class with an IQ rivaling Albert Einstein. Declan Lopez, like most kids her age, is energetic, curious and loves to play. But at just 6 years old, ...