--- title: Education: Fixing Classes for 'Gifted' Students description: How to fix the "gifted" students system in America, Bibi's missed opportunity, why voting matters (especially if you're young) and more. canonical: https://time.com/4036039/fixing-classes-gifted-students/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-16T16:01:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:39.617Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Fixing Classes for 'Gifted' Students og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4036039/fixing-classes-gifted-students/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fixing Classes for 'Gifted' Students twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Fixing Classes for 'Gifted' Students by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 16, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 16, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**The “gifted” system in U.S. schools is broken, racist, and completely fixable.**](http://qz.com/497450/the-gifted-system-in-us-schools-is-broken-racist-and-completely-fixable/) By Max Nisen in Quartz **2\.** [**Will Israel’s prime minister recognize that his country faces more than one threat to its existence?**](http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/obama-netanyahu-and-the-future-of-israel/405082/) By Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic **3\.** [**Some young people think their votes don’t count. They should see this.**](http://mic.com/articles/125344/if-anyone-ever-tells-you-your-vote-doesn-t-matter-show-them-this) By Sean McElwee in Mic **4\.** [**The future of organ transplantation is hot. Literally.**](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/10/the-future-of-organ-transplantation-is-hot-literally.html) By Robert Coolman in the Daily Beast **5\.** [**We need to rethink all our cybersecurity laws.**](http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/15/to-fix-cybersecurity-law-ask-more-questions/) By Jeff Kosseff in TechCrunch  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4036039/fixing-classes-gifted-students/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4036039/fixing-classes-gifted-students/"},"headline":"Fixing Classes for 'Gifted' Students","datePublished":"2015-09-16T16:01:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:39.617Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4036039/fixing-classes-gifted-students/","keywords":["Innovation","Israel","Voting","cybersecurity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4036039/fixing-classes-gifted-students/","name":"Fixing Classes for 'Gifted' Students"}}]}] ```