So education blog doyenne Joanne Jacobs and company have co-authored a report for the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Columbia University on “Understanding and Reporting on Academic Rigor.” (.pdf format, published June 2009): Remember the three Rs? Now there’s a fourth: rigor. It’s the buzzword in education. But translating the rhetoric about [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Irony Alert: Report on Reporting Rigor Not Rigorous
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged AP, education, elementary school, Gifted, high school, maryland, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, Rigor, School, standardized testing, testing, weast on June 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Weast Gets Testy with Board: Longer School Day Needed
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
At the June 23rd Board meeting Superintendent Weast smacked the board members, telling them they have a time constraint, and more importantly a budget constraint. Watch it. See Dr. Weast in action. Didn’t I tell you MCPS would be a great subject for a documentary? more about “Weast Gets Testy with Board: Longer …“, posted [...]
Good on You
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blogging, maryland, montgomery county on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is it possible to feel proud of someone you’ve never met? That you only know through their blog? Well call me crazy but I’m feeling all warm, fuzzy and maternal for Dan Reed of Just Up The Pike. For three years he’s been blogging–passionately, single-mindedly, intelligently–about land use issues, politics and more in the oft-overlooked [...]
“I Would Like to Tell You Everything”
Posted in In the News, Interesting, tagged genius, michael Jackson, profoundly gifted, Thomas Jefferson on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I would tell you all this because he was a Renaissance Man and would have been fascinated by all of these things. More than most people. But there is no time…. He was tall and lean and slept partly sitting up…. He woke at dawn. I don’t think he took naps. He studied Hessian Flies [...]
“Not As Good As You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School”
Posted in School on June 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Wow, multimedia about schools is breaking out all over the place. First New Jersey, now California. [Update: um, this was released in 2007. Obviously I have been living under a rock. Or just wasn't fully switched on to these issues at the time.] Again I ask, We live in one of the centers for documentary [...]
Rush Sneers at Takoma Kids
Posted in In the News, School, tagged advocacy, education, elementary school, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, parent involvement, School on June 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My, my, my. Just the other day I wrote about the newest crop of young Takoma Park activists: 3rd 4th and 5th graders at Piney Branch Elementary School who are lobbying the school system to get rid of Styrofoam cafeteria trays and replace them with durable trays and a dishwasher. The Post also did a [...]
Something Rotten in the State of New Jersey
Posted in School, tagged documentary, education, new jersey, SAT, School, teacher, testing on June 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The State of New Jersey has the highest per pupil spending in the country. Test results? Not so much. On the SAT for example, New Jersey ranks 37th. How do I know? I just learned this from the promotional website of a new New-Jersey-focused-but-with-a-bigger-agenda documentary that’s making the rounds in the mid Atlantic. It’s called [...]
MPCS Draft Strategic Plan: A Closer Look
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged board of education, education, Gifted, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, School, strategic plan on June 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I love draft MCPS documents because it’s one of the few times where you can really see in black and white–and red–where the behemoth that is MCPS is headed. Or at least would like to go. I love mulling the word choices: why all of a sudden is “blueprint” better than “foundation?” Why the switch [...]
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