Like many first-time Montgomery County parents, I heard about the Centers (Elementary Center Programs for the Highly Gifted) when my oldest child was in preschool. Already some in the “mommy mafia” were telling me that’s what I should shoot for for C. Academics in the Centers, I was told, were pitched at a very high [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Centering in on the Centers – Part One
Posted in Gifted, History, School, tagged Center for the Highly Gifted, Center program, Gifted, highly gifted, MCPS, SCAT on December 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Why Elementary Teachers Overlook the Verbally Gifted Child
Posted in School, tagged education, elementary school, exceptionally gifted, Gifted, identification, math, MCPS, profoundly gifted, teacher, verbally gifted on December 26, 2007 | 11 Comments »
I could use the education article on the front page of today’s Post –”Elementary Math Grows Exponentially Tougher“– as a jumping off point to talk about the math curriculum in MCPS. And believe me, that picture of the student using her fingers surely touched a nerve here. But I’ll save that for another post. Instead, [...]
Life Imitates Art: The “Challenge” of High School
Posted in In the News, School, tagged AP, challenge index, concurrent enrollment, early college, high school, MCPS, Two Million Minutes on December 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Two interesting items crossed paths on my computer screen this morning. The first was the digest from a local high school listserv. The other was a trailer for the documentary film “Two Million Minutes” which was released this fall. The film looks at the lives of six teenagers residing in China, India and the U.S. [...]
Michael Farris Doesn’t Speak for Me
Posted in Homeschooling, In the News, tagged Homeschooling - DC area, politics on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just opened the New York Times. And I want to go on record: Michael Farris Doesn’t Speak for Me! Michael Farris, in case you didn’t know, is the man behind the Home School Legal Defense Association and Patrick Henry College. He’s among those quoted in a Times article headlined, “Huckabee Draws Support of Home-School Families.” [...]
SAT Prep…for 7th Graders?
Posted in Gifted, tagged assessment, CTY, identification, SAT, SET, Talent Search, TIP on December 14, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It feels like I’m on a kajillion e-mailing lists for giftedness and homeschooling and recently I got a notice that really caught my eye. Homeschoolbuyerscoop.org was offering a special group buy for “PrepMe Precocious“…”a full year of SAT/ACT prep designed specifically for bright, highly-motivated 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.” This is so wrong. And I’m [...]
Right Hand, Meet Left Hand
Posted in School, tagged applications, Gifted, magnet program, MCPS on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As I’ve written previously, we’ve spent the past two months focused on getting applications in for MCPS middle school and high school magnet programs. Since I’ve done this once before at the middle school level, it was only at the last minute that I decided to attend the parent information meeting at the magnet that [...]
The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree
Posted in Gifted, In the News, tagged family, Gifted, GT/LD, identification on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times this morning has a great article: “Your Child’s Disorder May Be Yours Too.” I can relate. Although article focuses on issues such as Aspergers, ADD and bi-polar disorder, it could just as easily have spoken about giftedness and all the look-alike “symptoms,” “quirks,” call them what you like. And as the [...]
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