NYC's Preschool Gifted and Talented Tests

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 13, 2012

Julie Shapiro, DNAinfo.com reporter, talks about the Preschool Gifted and Talented Tests offered now through February 10 in New York City. Last year, only 6 percent of test takers were selected for a spot in one of the city’s prestigious gifted kindergarten programs, and to beat these odds, parents sometimes go to extremes to prepare their preschool children for the standardized test. Julie Shapiro’s article “How to Prepare your Preschooler for Gifted and Talented Tests” appears on DNAinfo.com.

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