The MCCPTA just sent around the link to this YouTube video of Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley extolling the importance of arts education. Meanwhile, those stalwart parents at Eastern Middle School have just notified parents of the status of their appeal to the MCPS Board of Education to reverse a schedule change that precludes students in [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Irony Alert: Arts Education and the Eastern Magnet
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged advocacy, education, Gifted, highly gifted, Jerry Weast, magnet program, maryland, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, parent advocacy, verbally gifted on October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Homegrown Genius
Posted in Gifted, tagged education, exceptionally gifted, Gifted, Gifted - Montgomery & Fairfax County GROUPS, high school, Jerry Weast, magnet program, maryland, math, parent advocacy, profoundly gifted, teen on October 25, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Been busy with some In Real Life GT issues lately and yesterday evening I found myself once more combing through down county school websites. Out of close to 40 schools, I think maybe four had GT liaisons listed on their PTA websites. Even more discouraging was to find that some schools don’t even have a [...]
Where the Wild Things Weren’t
Posted in Home Life, tagged jonze, movies, sendak, where the wild things are on October 19, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I saw the previews. I read the rhapsodic reviews. So this weekend I took myself and M. down to the theater to see Where the Wild Things Are, waiting to be wowed. We weren’t. In fact, we hated it. Shoot me. The weather had been miserable for days, that perfectly, bone chillingly, miserable mix of [...]
All Gifted, All the Time
Posted in Gifted, In the News, tagged education, elementary, exceptionally gifted, feynman, feynman school, Gifted, highly gifted, maryland, montgomery county, preschool, private school, profoundly gifted on October 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The New York Times reports that there’s a new player on the New York City school scene, and for the preschoolers and early elementary students who enroll, it’s all gifted all the time. In a city where the public school gifted programs have long provided an enviable free education, and there are many expensive private [...]
A Rarely Heard Story
Posted in Gifted, In the News, School, tagged advocacy, african-american, curriculum, differentiation, education, elementary school, Gifted, high school, highly gifted, Homeschooling, magnet program, maryland, math, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, naacp, parent advocacy, parent involvement, PTA, red zone, School, teen on October 7, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I’m pleased to direct you to a story that appears this week in our little bitty local freebie newspaper, The Takoma Voice. But the story is anything but little bitty. Sue Katz Miller, one very involved Takoma Park parent and most excellent writer, devotes her School Scene column to a question and answer with Denise [...]
On Second Thought: MCPS Seeks Math Feedback
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged advocacy, curriculum, education, elementary school, high school, maryland, math, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, parent advocacy on October 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You may recall a few months back that I wrote about the mega boondoggle panel created by MCPS to review mathematics instruction. Well the K-12 Mathematics Work Group is soliciting feedback from parents. The local PTA’s (not folks who left MCPS because of the math instruction, mind you, nor the GTA, which has been most [...]
Same As It Ever Was: Howard Co. Student Denied
Posted in Gifted, In the News, tagged advocacy, early college, education, Gifted, high school, Jay Mathews, maryland on October 5, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This morning’s Post carried this story by Jay Mathews: School Rules Stifle Gifted Student. Be still my heart–Jay Mathews taking on the case of gifted student denied acceleration. Echoes of the Singam case. Anyone who wants to appreciate how strong a grip high school has on the American imagination, and how clueless some school districts [...]
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