I suppose I should be shocked speechless, but after several years of paying particular attention to gifted education in MCPS, not much shocks me anymore. Still, to have it all laid out so clearly and succinctly by a new-to-the-beat writer on a nationally read education blog was, well, startling. I speak of back-to-back posts today [...]
Archive for June 4th, 2009
Can It Be Any Clearer?
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged curriculum, differentiation, education, Gifted, highly gifted, humanities, maryland, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, MSA, School, standardized testing, teacher on June 4, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Bringing on the Crazy
Posted in In the News, School, tagged advocacy, education, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS, parent advocacy, School on June 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
(I wasn’t going to write about this, but if the Post is….) The Washington Post is reporting on a bizarre series of postings to the Parents’ Coalition listserv. Trust me. They were bizarre. Now the PC can be wild and woolly. Some folks there can get a little (ahem) strident. A little (ahem) hyperbolic. A [...]
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