Public Advocate Jumaane Williams believes that the admissions process for gifted and talented classes needs to change in order to provide opportunities to more black and Latino students—and that children in gifted programs should be in the same classrooms as general-education students, he wrote in a Jan. 15 op-ed.
An alumnus of Brooklyn Tech, one of the city’s eight specialized high schools, Mr. Williams noted that the gifted-and-talented program at his middle school helped prepare him to pass the Specialized High School Admissions Test. “But right now, the barriers to that kind of enrichment are overwhelming,” he wrote.
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