Nationally, 3.3 million public school students have been identified for gifted education programs, about 6 percent of the total school population. Inequity is the norm. Wealthy schools identify more children as gifted than do poor ones. Black, Latino and indigenous groups are often left out. But can you make gifted education representative? Can we even agree on what “giftedness” is at all?
Category: Gifted Education’s Race Problem
The children in America’s gifted education programs don’t look like the overall school population. They’re disproportionately white and wealthy, while Black, Latinx, Indigenous and low-income students are often left out. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it.
