#865: The challenges of parenting gifted children, with Gail Post

Gail Post Michael J. Petrilli Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. David Griffith, Ph.D.

4.12.2023

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Gail Post joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss how parents can support their gifted children and advocate for their educational needs. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber looks at a Dallas program that used salary bonuses to attract and retain highly effective teachers at hard-to-staff schools.

Recommended content:

Gail’s new book: The Gifted Parenting Journey: A Guide to Self-discovery and Support for Families of Gifted Children
Fordham’s Substack newsletter on gifted education: Advance
“The wonderful but weighty challenges of parenting a gifted child” —Victoria McDougald
“A formula for creating more equitable gifted and talented programs” —Wall Street Journal
The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Andrew Morgan et al., “Attracting and retaining highly effective educators in hard-to-staff schools,” NBER Working Paper (March 2023)

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Policy Priority:

Personalized Pathways

Topics:

Advanced Education

Gail Post has been a clinical psychologist for over 35 years. She also serves as a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the Education Gadfly Weekly, host of the…

Amber Northern is senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she supervises the Institute’s robust research portfolio and…

David Griffith is the National Research Director at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he manages or authors reports on various subjects including charter schools, …