Sometimes the “gifted and talented” aren't

Ministers are overestimating the number of exceptionally bright pupils in Britain’s schools, the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children will be told this week. Research shows that teachers charged with picking out the top pupils feel that far too many are labeled as “gifted and talented” and that the government was wrong to recommend that 10% should be picked out in each school, a total of 800,000 across the country. Instead, between 2% and 5% of children should be classified as “gifted learners,” cutting hundreds of thousands of pupils already placed in the top group. Read why at the Guardian Unlimited.