Fall Intern Molly Kennedy offers up this reading:
In New York City the programs for gifted children have been in the middle of a tug-of-war between multiple parties, with critics labeling them ???bastions of white privilege??? but proponents seeing them as a reason to stay in the city's public school system. This year, the number of children entering these programs has dropped by half -- despite Mayor Bloomber's 2005 State of the City promise to ???maintain all of the city's existing gifted programs while creating more in ???historically underserved districts.'" Read more here.