Sentence examples for gifted schools from inspiring English sources

TAG is the forgotten sibling of the two other citywide gifted schools in Manhattan.

Two other schools, like every school I visited except the citywide gifted schools, have kindergartners watch movies inside on rainy or cold days.

After a second meeting with Silverman, Patti and Martin gave some thought to moving to the Denver area, which had eight or ten very strong gifted schools and programs, and where Brandenn had grandparents and cousins.

Aware that it is not city funding, but private donations and grants that plump the budgets of the best-known gifted schools, TAG parents established a dedicated fund-raising circle, a grant-writing committee and a public relations committee this year.

A similar imbalance exists at gifted schools in East Harlem, where almost three-fifths of the students at TAG Young Scholars are girls, and the Lower East Side, where Alec Kulakowski, a seventh grader at New Explorations in Science and Technology and Math, considered his status as part of the school's second sex and remarked, "It's kind of weird and stuff".

The money for gifted schools ran out after half a year and my parents moved to a new home so my mother could take the Metro downtown to law school.

"Our administration's core philosophy, when it comes to education, has always been, if we raise our expectations, our kids will meet them," Mr. Bloomberg said at Talented and Gifted Young Scholars, a citywide gifted school in East Harlem that was one of the 22 high-scoring schools.

This is particularly true for white parents, and to a lesser extent, Asians, creating a noticeably segregated gifted school landscape.

Rebecca Labowitz, the mother of a child at a gifted school and the author of the popular schools blog CPS Obsessed, said parents looking for an edge in getting their children into a highly desirable school might be out of luck.

Donna Taylor, the principal of the Brooklyn School of Inquiry, a growing citywide gifted school, said there seemed to be fewer disappointed parents after the Education Department notified them of the eligibility results over the weekend.

Students at the gifted school have lunchboxes that feature images of the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited and chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov.