Run, don’t walk, to the blog of Tamara Fisher, Unwrapping the Gifted. Fisher is a K-12 gifted education specialist for a school district located on an American Indian reservation in northwestern Montana and president-elect of the Montana Association of Gifted and Talented Education. Her blog appears on the Education Week website. She’s just put up [...]
Archive for July, 2008
“GT Is NOT”: Read It
Posted in Gifted, tagged education, Gifted on July 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Nickel and Diming the Mathletes
Posted in Gifted, In the News, School, tagged Gifted, math, math competition, MCPS, montgomery county on July 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Sorry that I seem to be on a math jag, but what am I going to do? It’s what’s in the news. [Besides Husband Dear and the girls are on a road trip to parts south, so I don't have any good personal anecdotes to share. Evidently they are behaving like angels. No, really. "Like [...]
Spotlight Coming to Magnet Math
Posted in School, tagged math, MCPS, subject acceleration on July 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A Washington Post reporter working on a profile of a math teacher in the Montgomery Blair High School Science, Mathematics and Computer Science Magnet put out a call to a local listserv this week, asking for parental comment on math acceleration in MCPS. The story is slated to run August 3. She wrote: …one of [...]
All I Need to Know
Posted in In the News, School, tagged education, maryland, montgomery county, MSA, School, testing on July 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Fact number one is that Maryland sets the bar defining proficiency very close to the ground,” said Bruce Fuller, a professor of education and public policy at the University of California at Berkeley. “State officials are under enormous political pressure to show progress.” That from this morning’s story in the Washington Post, “Md. Scores In [...]
Two Systems, Different Choices
Posted in In the News, School, tagged Gifted, high school, magnet program, montgomery county on July 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Well the education news week started off with a bang. A front page, above the fold, left column story in Monday’s Washington Post: “At Magnet School, An Asian Plurality: Group Forms 45% Of Freshmen at Thomas Jefferson.” This is news? And the point is … well, what is the point? The racial composition of TJ [...]
Summer: It Takes a Village
Posted in Extracurricular, Home Life, tagged summer on July 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m sitting here in my living room in the the gathering dark. House completely silent. C. is away at camp. M. is in her room on her laptop. Husband just left for the gym. Finally, some time to snuggle up to the ol’ blog. For the past month I’ve been working full-time outside of the [...]
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