Gifted Instruction

A fifth-grade student works with her classmates on a project about food insecurity at Ritenour School District's gifted learning center Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019.

Education

Ritenour Works To Make Gifted Classrooms More Diverse

Ryan Delaney

In Ritenour School District, no single ethnicity makes up more than half of its students. But it has been facing a challenge that many districts across…

Sonja Brewer, center, works with a gifted learning student March 7, 2018, at Washington Elementary School in Normandy. The gifted program was restored this school year.

Education

State Ed Board Wants More Counselors In Missouri Public Schools

Ryan Delaney

The Missouri State Board of Education took steps Tuesday toward putting more counselors and support staff in the state’s public schools.Counselors in…

Donye' Winston, 12, reacts to something her classmate Mahlia Pryor, 11, says during their gifted learning class on March 7, 2018, at Normandy's Washington Elementary School.

Education

Gifted program returns to Normandy elementary schools

Ryan Delaney

Discontinued during the turmoil of unaccreditation and reincorporation, a gifted learning program has returned to Normandy’s elementary schools.At…

Mallinckrodt Academy for Gifted Instruction on Hampton Ave. in south St. Louis finished transitioning into a gifted elementary school in the fall of 2015.

Education

Slow start for effort to increase diversity in St. Louis gifted schools

As St. Louis Public Schools prepares to add a first grade gifted classroom in north St. Louis in the fall, the overwhelming majority of students eligible…