As they grew up, these Black and low-income high achievers were less likely to go to college. That mirrors long-standing achievement differences on standardized tests but researchers have also found that gifted Black students are often overlooked, especially by white teachers.Ī 2021 study in Ohio found that high-achieving students who score among the top 20 percent on third-grade tests were much less likely to be identified as gifted and stay high achieving if they are Black or low-income students. Among whites, 8 percent get tapped for gifted classrooms. Nationally, more than 13 percent of all Asian students are enrolled in gifted programs compared with just 4 percent of Black students, according to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Meanwhile, Black and Hispanic students make up more than 65 percent of the public school system but win only 16 percent of the gifted seats.īrainy black and Hispanic students might benefit most from ‘honors’ classrooms White and Asian parents who have the resources and inclination to prepare their 4-year-olds to excel on standardized tests snag more than three quarters of the coveted seats, although these two groups account for less than a third of all students.
In New York City, the difference between gifted and general education is especially stark. Regardless of the number of students, the racial and ethnic composition of the students in gifted and talented programs is often askew. By contrast, in Massachusetts, where students consistently post the highest test scores in the nation, only one half of one percent of students - 0.5 percent - are labeled “gifted” and given extra services. Maryland has the highest percentage of gifted students at 16 percent. Gifted and talented programs are especially popular in the South. That’s less than 4 percent of the city’s public school population and below the national average where almost 7 percent of students are tapped for gifted and talented programs. In New York City, roughly 2,500 kindergarteners a year are put into separate gifted and talented classrooms. I wanted to know what the research evidence says about the model that New York is discarding and how education researchers would remake gifted and talented programs. Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)Īfter years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year-olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test. Existing programs across the nation tend to admit few Black and Latino students and they often don’t show evidence of helping students learn more. New York City is overhauling its gifted and talented program.
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