A recent New York Times article describes an interesting trend in test preparation: getting 3-and 4-year-olds competitive for gifted-and-talented public kindergarten programs. Traditionally, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Following months of delay, the city Department of Education is prepared to administer the high-stakes Gifted & Talented exam to 4-year-olds -- but the test will no longer be given after this year, ...

Casually, I mentioned to my husband that we received a letter from our son’s elementary school about gifted testing, knowing his reaction would be anything but casual. After all, this was the man ...

Today, my 4-year-old daughter will be put to the test. Along with thousands of other pre-kindergarten children in schools all over the city, she’ll take the Bracken School Readiness Assessment and ...

Six students sat around a table, tackling workbooks with pointy pencils, while their teacher reached over their shoulders and checked off their correct answers. “You’re just guessing,’’ the teacher, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — The Panel for Educational Policy voted against a proposed contract early Thursday morning that would have allowed the city to test four-year-olds for the gifted and talented program this ...