Ah Thursday! Always a good day to get my education news fix from Jay Mathews’ Extra Credit column and this week doesn’t disappoint. He runs a letter from one frustrated “parent of two in the system and a lifelong educator.” The problem? Math. More specifically accelerated math. Approximately 25 children in my son’s fourth [...]
Archive for June 18th, 2009
Of Mountains and Middle School
Posted in Gifted, In the News, School, tagged acceleration, education, elementary school, Gifted, Jay Mathews, maryland, math, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, parent advocacy on June 18, 2009 | 17 Comments »
MCPS is on Twitter
Posted in School, tagged education, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, parent advocacy, School, technology, twitter on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s official. MCPS is twittering. You can follow them at http://twitter.com/mcps. They’ve actually had the account for awhile…I stumbled on it late one night a few weeks ago. (The Blair Magnet has one as well, but they’ve only tweeted twice since April 4th.) It will be very interesting to see how MCPS uses Twitter. Will [...]
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