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Can It Be Any Clearer?
I suppose I should be shocked speechless, but after several years of paying particular attention to gifted education in MCPS, not much shocks me anymore. Still, to have it all laid out so clearly and...
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The Meeting: A Play in One Act
The setting: An elementary school classroom anywhere in Montgomery County, Maryland. The actors: The parent of a second grade student, a teacher. Parent: Thank you for taking the time to see my...
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“What Research Tells Us about Exemplary Practice in Gifted Education”
As much as I blog about all this school system policy stuff, I didn’t necessarily set out to do so and feel that I truly am a newbie. In my 10 years of having kids in MCPS I had never, until this...
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Something Rotten in the State of New Jersey
The State of New Jersey has the highest per pupil spending in the country. Test results? Not so much. On the SAT for example, New Jersey ranks 37th. How do I know? I just learned this from the...
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More Cowbell. Not.
I have to say, I had a hard time just getting past the first paragraph: Jean Bernstein rang a cowbell, her cue to quiet the sixth-graders at Roberto Clemente Middle School for a lesson on multiplying...
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Pushback on Willy Nilly Acceleration
Interesting article over on our local freebie paper, The Gazette today. Do read it. County’s middle school curriculum too accelerated, some parents say: School system wants 80 percent of pupils ready...
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How did I miss this?
Boy I’m behind in my reading. How did I miss this post by Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant? A reading teacher contacted him for suggestions of a “reading program for an extraordinarily bright...
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Back to School Night: Sophomore Edition
Another year, another back to school night. Yes, this week we once more joined the herd of dazed and confused parents navigating the three floors and winding hallways of C.’s high school. She did us...
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
So Marylanders, how did you celebrate “Gifted and Talented Education Month” in the state? What? You didn’t know that Governor Martin O’Malley had issued such a declaration for the month February? It...
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Milestones
The other day Husband Dear pointed out a blogging milestone that slipped my notice: sometime in the past month I exceeded 200,000 page views. Thanks to everyone who’s stopped by and who continues to...
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