Your gifted masses yearning to get some appropriately challenging work breathe free…or at least your stories. That’s the word from Montgomery County’s Gifted and Talented Association co-president Eric Marx. People need to KNOW what is happening to highly able kids in MCPS in a way that dry policy buzzwords just can’t convey. Here’s a recent [...]
Archive for March 3rd, 2009
Give Me your Tired, Your Poor…
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged advocacy, Gifted, Gifted - Montgomery & Fairfax County GROUPS, parent advocacy, School on March 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Where’s the Art?
Posted in Gifted, Learning, School, tagged advocacy, art, curriculum, Gifted, Gifted - Montgomery & Fairfax County GROUPS, high school, humanities, IB, MCPS, middle school, music, parent advocacy on March 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In discussions about the impact that scheduling changes will have on the middle school humanities magnet program, parents and students have been bewailing the potential impact on the school’s music programs. “What about research that ties music to math achievement?” “Think how this will affect marching bands in high schools!” For every person who suggests [...]
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