Whew it’s gotten wonky around here! Not my intention necessarily, but this is after all a blog about “Extreme giftedness, education, homeschooling, parenting and more…as seen from the Washington, DC suburbs” and the recent moves by MCPS to eliminate GT identification squarely hits several of those areas. But on to some lighter fare, namely what [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Presents
Posted in Gifted, Home Life on December 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“MCPS Is Not Eliminating Gifted Programs” – A Closer Look
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged acceleration, advocacy, Center for the Highly Gifted, education, elementary school, Gifted, Gifted - Montgomery & Fairfax County GROUPS, high school, identification, magnet program, MAP-R, middle school, montgomery county, NCLB, parent advocacy, parent involvement, School, testing on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, let’s take a closer look at the document released hastily by the Office of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction on December 24th, shall we? The document entitled “Montgomery County Public Schools is Not Eliminating Gifted Programs: Questions and Answers” seeks to provide answers and reassurance on the following questions: What is the current process for [...]
“Labelgate” – The Timeline
Posted in Gifted, In the News, tagged advocacy, curriculum, education, elementary school, Gifted, Gifted - Montgomery & Fairfax County GROUPS, high school, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, parent advocacy on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The presents are opened. Cookies eaten. Christmas movie seen (“Four Christmases“…not as bad as expected). Ham and latkes eaten (it’s complicated). So now I’m digesting and back to blogging. So where were we in a situation that is now being called “Labelgate?” Well, just to recap: On December 16th the Washington Post published an [...]
Gifted Christmas Goodies
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged assessment, Gifted, identification, MCPS, parent advocacy on December 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While most normal people were scurrying around today, making last minute preparations for Christmas Eve, I too was scurrying around making last minute preparations for Christmas Eve… and furtively checking e-mail on my iPhone at traffic lights, on the way to the store, in the changing room, while making cookies. Why? Because the developments keep [...]
Now is the Time: GTA Issues Action Alert
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged differentiation, education, Gifted, Gifted - Montgomery & Fairfax County GROUPS, highly gifted, identification, Jerry Weast, MCPS, montgomery county, parent advocacy, parent involvement on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Isn’t it great how controversial issues have a way of emerging just before the holidays, when parents are preoccupied and school is out of session for close to two weeks? Such is the case of the proposed revision to Montgomery County’s Gifted Education policy, which would essentially “disappear” gifted students and put to rest that [...]
Post Letters: Montgomery’s Treatment of Gifted Students
Posted in Gifted, In the News, tagged Gifted, identification, mpcs, parent advocacy, washington post on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The aftershocks continue. This morning the Post ran three letters to the editor on in response to last week’s story, Montgomery Erasing Gifted Label. You can read them here. I’ll take the liberty of running the one by Eric Marx, co-President of the Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County, in full: Parents criticize Montgomery [...]
Alternate Universe
Posted in Gifted, In the News, School, tagged achievement gap, AP, high school, Jay Mathews, red zone, washington post on December 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The last two weeks have been the weeks for high profile school ranking lists, namely the Washington Post/Jay Mathews Challenge Index (brought to you by the company that also owns Newsweek, of “America’s Best High Schools” fame and Kaplan Test Preparation) and the U.S. News and World Report’s America’s Best High Schools. [Aside #1: Do [...]
Essay Update
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged curriculum, English, Gifted, MCPS, middle school, parent advocacy, reading on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my posts from last week concerned a writing assignment that M. was given in English: to write an adventure story. A descriptive adventure story. In two pages. Arial, 14 pt Font. M. wrote two pages and a half pages and wasn’t even close to the climax. But the quality of the writing was [...]
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