Critics say the systems we use to educate the brightest kids are flawed and exclusionary. What if it’s the very premise of ...

Across classrooms and kitchen tables, adults still talk about “gifted” children as if brilliance were a fragile heirloom that must be protected at all costs. Science points in a different direction.

The term "gifted" has been around since 1916. At the time, it was used to describe children with higher-than-average IQs, and was first used by psychologists Leta Hollingworth and Lewis Terman. While ...