As a public high school student at North Hollywood High, she attended a magnet program for highly gifted students.
No such scheme could put much of a dent in the national finances, but it would be a major boost to gifted students from poor backgrounds.
About two-thirds of the students in the gifted programs are white and Asian, compared with one-third of the general student population.
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But there's a scale that psychologists and schools can use to screen students for entrance into gifted programs.
Denny Way, a senior statistician at Pearson, said the method allowed the city to compare its own students with those considered gifted across the country.
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The errors affected 4, 735 children, or 13.2% of test takers, who are now eligible for gifted programs, including 2, 037 students who are newly eligible for elite schools that accept students from across the city who scored in the 97th percentile or above.
Mr. Weiner, whose mother was a public schoolteacher, repeated ideas he has laid out over the last week: use gifted-and-talented programs to attract students to poor-performing schools, and treat teachers better.
At NYC Gifted, the 90-minute class consists of 10 students and one teacher.
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Six students were bumped out of eligibility for local gifted programs when the scores were revised, but they won't be penalized, she said.
"Olga is a very natural and gifted teacher, hard-working and extremely devoted to her students, " the school's artistic director and faculty chairman, Peter Martins, said in an e-mail.
Called the Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students, this tool lists dozens of characteristics of gifted children under categories that range from leadership and communication to math to art and music.
Aamir's head teacher at his school, the private Cardiff Academy for GCSE and A-level students, remembers a lovely pupil who was very academically gifted.
Brooklyn School of Inquiry is one of five highly competitive gifted-and-talented programs that accepts the highest-scoring students from across the city based on results from two tests.
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The city also runs local gifted programs in most of its 32 geographic districts that are open to students who live in the district.
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Thousands of students were incorrectly told they weren't eligible for the city's gifted-and-talented public-school program due to errors by the testing company, city officials said Friday.
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