Locally, homeschooling popped up all over the place this past week. The Washington Post kicked things off with an article on the front page of the Sunday Opinions section no less, followed by a remarkably civil online chat on Monday. However the article’s comment section , as well as the midweek On Parenting blog, predictably [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Homeschooling in the DC Spotlight
Posted in Homeschooling, In the News, tagged Homeschooling - DC area on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yay! Rah-Rah! MSA!
Posted in School, tagged maryland, MCPS, MSA, NCLB, testing on March 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Okay, I know I need to stop posting about the upcoming MSAs (Maryland School Assessents), but I just can’t help myself. There’s just too much ridiculosity (can I make up a word?) This, for example, was put out by area middle school before spring break: We know the transition back to work will be an [...]
Gifted Advocacy: What Not to Do
Posted in Gifted, In the News, School, tagged advocacy, education, Gifted, MCPS, School on March 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I love Thursdays. Not only is that the day that both the Post and the Times run their Home, and Fashion and Style sections respectively, but it’s when the Post sends out its Montgomery Extra, a local supplement. And each Extra issue includes lots of good nitty-gritty local education bits. Today’s was particularly noteworthy (here’s [...]
First Step into High School
Posted in School, tagged high school, MCPS on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we took the first step into the new school year, with–in the case of C.–an open house night at her prospective high school, followed by a daytime visit that included a tour of the new building, math assessment and registration for classes. M.’s prospective middle school also held a new parent meeting. As [...]
A Plea/Case for the Arts
Posted in School, tagged art, dance, education, MCPS, NCLB, new york city, School, standardized testing, testing on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As an early St. Patrick’s Day treat, I want to share with you this wonderful video about a teacher in the New York City public schools who has introduced Irish dance to her students in the Bronx. It accompanies the heartwarming New York Times story, “For Bronx School’s Dancers, the Moves are Irish.” The teacher [...]
Testing, Testing
Posted in School, tagged 5th grade, MSA, School, testing on March 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
At this moment Stacey Garfinkle, who writes the On Parenting blog at the Washington Post, has started a conversation about testing with her post The Tests Are Coming!. She writes: Two weeks in a row, my son’s kindergarten class has been bumped from PE. When I asked why that was this past week, he said [...]
Sacred Spaces, Turf Wars
Posted in Home Life, tagged Home Life, imagination, temperment on March 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Did you build blanket forts as a kid? Tree forts? A hidey-hole under the stairs? Did you swear that when you were a grown up you would build a house with a secret staircase a la the stories in Nancy Drew? If so, I think you tapped into a deeply seated human impulse: the attraction [...]
The Other Shoe Drops
Posted in School, tagged private school, wait-listed on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m in a posh (very un-DC) boutique hotel in Arlington, here for a work function and just got off the phone with C. Tearfully she told me that she had received the dreaded thin envelope from the DC private school that she had soooooo wanted to go to. The verdict: waitlisted. But at close to [...]
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