President Obama’s remarks on inequality, stoking populist anger at “the rich,” suggest that the theme for his reelection bid will be not hope and change but focus on reducing class disparity with government help. But this effort isn’t limited to economics; it is playing out in our nation’s schools as well.

Making sure that all gifted students hit their own personal walls is crucial for developing their empathy with the rest of the world.

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen liberal commentators look back with nostalgia to the days when a young man fresh out of high school or military service could get a well-paying job on an assembly line at a unionized auto factory that could carry him through to a...

The developing gender gap in the gifted programs in New York City shows how American boys across the ability spectrum and in all age groups have become second-class citizens in the nation's schools.

The haves in our society are increasingly cocooned in a system that makes it easy for their children to continue to be haves. That said, four steps might weaken the isolation of, at least, the children of the new upper class.

What do we learn if the Thiel fellows go on to be wildly successful? That taking the most academically gifted students in the country and putting them in an awesome program flush with resources is a good idea. It doesn't tell us much of anything about whether higher education is a good investment more generally.

It is time for the United States to accomodate the needs of its intellectual elite.

One of the special tasks in the education of the gifted is to steep them in the study of how good applies to virtue.