Gifted Education Podcast - The Prufrock Press Blog

Parents are often presented with a menu of learning opportunities for talented kids. From special accelerated classes and dual-enrollment college programs, to homeschooling and online courses, the decisions about quality learning opportunities can seem endless. In this podcast, I sit down with Carol Fertig, the author of, Raising a Gifted Child: A Parenting Success Handbook, in order to help make sense of some of these many options.

Today’s topic is one that impacts gifted kids in schools on a regular basis. In the past, gifted children often were placed into special gifted classes or accelerated learning groups. The thinking went that gifted children learned at a faster pace than other kids, and if you could group gifted children together it was easier for those students and their teachers to move at a faster pace through the class’ subject matter. However, the practice of grouping students by ability has become a...