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New York City officials announced plans this month for its school system, the country’s largest, to phase out its program for gifted and talented students. “The debate is ‘Gifted at what?’” said Marcia Gentry, director of Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute. Nationwide, only 56% of the nation’s schools teach students who have been identified as gifted and …
