Several bills which affect homeschooling in Maryland have been introduced for the 2008 session of the Maryland General Assembly. HB 1249 – Public Schools – Classes and Extracurricular Activities – Home-Schooled Students. This bill would allow homeschool students to participate in after-school activities at their local public school, as well as having the option of [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Homeschooling Legislation: Time for Changes?
Posted in Homeschooling, School, tagged dual enrollment, early college, Homeschooling, legislation, maryland on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
College Class Update
Posted in Gifted, Homeschooling, In the News, tagged early college, umbc on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m sitting in the common area outside a classroom at UMBC, working on my laptop while C. attends her class. It’s a bit of a haul up Interstate 95 to get her here by 10 a.m. three times per week, but it’s worth it. On the first day I peeked through the window of the [...]
NPR Series on Innovative Trends in High Schools
Posted in In the News, tagged education, high school, npr on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It will come as no surprise to folks that I’m a complete NPR-head. WAMU is on more or less around the clock at our house, in our car, and when I was at home with very small kids, it was a sanity saver. I consider public radio to be one of the great good things [...]
The Smell of Fear
Posted in In the News, School, tagged HSA, maryland, MCPS, MSA, NCLB, testing on February 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The days are ever so slowly getting longer and soon there will be the smell of spring in the air. But before that there is the smell… of fear. Fear, you ask? Well February ushers in the standardized testing season, which really kicks into high gear in March. And for those schools which are at [...]
Forced March: PTA Meeting Reveals Math Trail of Tears
Posted in School, tagged Accelerated and Enriched, advocacy, AEI, curriculum, education, Gifted, Jerry Weast, MAP-R, math, MCPS, NCLB, PTA, reading on February 6, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Went to a PTA meeting last night (yes, I do still go to these on occasion.) And what got me out of the house was the featured speaker, the new (as of the fall) Director of the Division Accelerated and Enriched Instruction (AEI) in MCPS. I wanted to check her out, hear what she had [...]
“Souper Bowl” Girl
Posted in School, tagged creativity, report card, School on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Reports cards came out last week, and no surprise, M.’s was all over the map. Outstanding in art, music, science and speaking. Holding her own in 6th grade math with a B and “satisfactory’s.” But language arts. Ah, language arts. This should be her strength area, the girl with the 99th percentile reading comprehension score [...]
Strangers in a Strange Land
Posted in Gifted, Homeschooling, tagged competitions, Gifted, Hard Problems, highly gifted, math, math competition, mathcounts, profoundly gifted, verbally gifted on February 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
So yesterday we experienced our first math competition, and as the title of this post suggests, it did feel akin to visiting a foreign country. Imagine, 160 middle school students turning out at 8 a.m. on a cold Saturday morning…to do math! How had we not crossed paths before? Homeschooling Math As I’ve noted elsewhere, [...]
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