Are the Gifted Being Stiffed?

A pair of researchers at the American Enterprise Institute seem to think so. “The lack of value placed on developing these students is most clearly communicated through funding,” they write. “In the $59.8 billion 2015 federal education budget, one dollar was spent on gifted and talented education for every $500,000 spent on everything else, and this rate of funding has remained near zero for at least the past two decades.”