And the Washington Post doesn’t want you to know. On June 18 the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a research organization in Washington, released a report titled “High Achieving Students in the Era of NCLB” highlighting that the needs of America’s brightest students are not being met. You can read the full report here, the PowerPoint [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Confirmed: It Stinks to Be a Gifted Student…
Posted in Gifted, In the News, School, tagged acceleration, education, Gifted, grade skip, identification, NCLB, research, teacher, testing, washington post on June 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Just Saying No–to Accelerated Math
Posted in In the News, School, tagged math, MCPS, placement, testing on June 10, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Last week the Washington Post ran a story on the a topic I’ve blogged on before: the uneasiness many parents are feeling about willy-nilly math acceleration in MCPS. You can read the story, “Accelerated Math Adds Up to a Division over Merits,” (yuk, yuk) here. While parents support rigor and the opportunity for acceleration, many [...]
When Stupid Ideas Happen to Clueless People
Posted in School, tagged gifted stereotype, nerd on June 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you’ve been reading the past few posts, you know that we’re in the throes of “Spirit Week” here. That’s the week before the last week of school when everyone has basically run out of things to teach and every day is one big celebration. “Career Day.” “Wacky Hair Day.” “70s Day. ” “Pajama Day.” [...]
Razzle Dazzle ‘em
Posted in Homeschooling, tagged homeschool review on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So on Monday I had my third homeschool review (at least from this stint of homeschooling). As I noted earlier, I was wondering if they had forgotten. But they hadn’t, which gave me a few days to pull together the necessary materials. My husband–bless his naive heart–said I should save everyone’s time and just call [...]
The World’s Worst Mother
Posted in Home Life, tagged hair, parenting, yelling on June 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Have you heard? I’m the world’s worst mother. At least that was my conclusion this morning after been screamed at for close to an hour while M. readied herself for the penultimate day of the year, Wacky Hair Day. I was actually going to get up early and blog about yesterday’s homeschool review (stay tuned), [...]
Homeschool Review Around the Corner
Posted in Homeschooling, tagged Homeschooling, maryland, montgomery county, review on June 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Just when I thought they might have forgotten us (!), I got a letter this week asking me to arrange for my end-of-year homeschool review before June 13. The letter asks me to: “bring the items below to the review meeting to support your discussion of your child’s instructional program and progress made. portfolio of [...]
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