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Archive for November 11th, 2009

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  • Happy Mother’s Day
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  • Buh-Bye Jerry Weast, Hello Joshua Starr
  • Under a Bushel
  • Update Part Two
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  • Sir Ken Robinson on Homeschooling
  • Race to Nowhere: Counterpoint
  • The AP Drug
  • Race to Nowhere: Ground Zero

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• Top Posts

  • Happy Mother's Day
  • Why Elementary Teachers Overlook the Verbally Gifted Child
  • 75th Percentile
  • RIP National Vocabulary Contest
  • Just Saying No--to Accelerated Math
  • MCPS Parent Manifesto
  • My "Indigo" Children
  • The Onion: Special Boy With Freakishly Large Brain Wins Spelling Bee
  • Just Do It: Gifted Assessment
  • Truth Out: MCPS Hates Grade Skipping
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• A Small Sample of Some Blogs I Read

  • Domestic Disturbances – Judith Warner
  • Educating Archie
  • Eide Neurolearning Blog
  • Free Range Kids
  • Gifted Children at About.com
  • Gifted Exchange
  • High Ability
  • Hormone Colored Days
  • Jay Mathews: Class Struggle
  • Joanne Jacobs
  • Just Up the Pike
  • Kitchen Table Math, the sequel
  • Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County
  • TalentedandGifted.net
  • Throwing Marshmallows
  • Tiny House Blog
  • Unwrapping the Gifted
  • Urban Dictionary

• Blogroll

  • Technorati

• Carnivals

  • Carnival of Education
  • Carnival of Homeschooling

• Gifted - Montgomery & Fairfax County GROUPS

  • Fairfax County Association for the Gifted
  • Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County – Website
  • Gifted Child Committee – Montgomery County Council of Parent Teacher Associations
  • GT/LD Network
  • Maryland Coalition for Gifted and Talented Education
  • Montomery Blair High School Magnet Foundation

• Gifted - Montgomery & Fairfax County LISTSERVS

  • Fairfax County Association of the Gifted – Listserv
  • Fairfax Twice Exceptional
  • GT Liaisons
  • GT/LD NetworkNews
  • GTA Letters – Listserv of the Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County
  • MCCPTA Gifted Child Committee Listserv (announcements only)

• Gifted - National

  • Davidson Gifted Database
  • Davidson Institute for Talent Development – Young Scholars Program
  • HoagiesGifted.org
  • Institute for Research and Policy on Acceleration (IRPA) (Belin-Bank Center, Uni. of Iowa)
  • Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth
  • Mapping Maryland’s Educational Progress 2008 – NCLB results
  • National Association for Gifted Children
  • SENG: Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted

• Gifted Homeschooling - National

  • Books, Links and More
  • Bright Kids at Home
  • GIfted Homeschoolers
  • The Accidental Homeschooler

• Homeschooling - DC area

  • Baltimore-Washington Home Educators
  • Columbia Homeschool Community
  • DC Home Educators Association
  • DC Metro Gifted Homeschooling
  • Hand in Hand Homeschool Curriculum Review
  • Homeschool Frederick
  • Homeschool Montgomery – portal
  • Homeschooling in DC
  • Maryland Homeschool Resource Network
  • Maryland Homeschooling A to Z
  • Maryland Unschooling Family Connection
  • MCPS Department of Student Services: Homeschooling
  • Montgomery Home Learning Network
  • Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers
  • Takoma Park Home Learning Network
  • Unschooling United Central Maryland

• Montgomery County Public Schools

  • 2008 Maryland Report Card – Montgomery County By School
  • Accelerated & Enriched Instruction
  • Curriculum
  • Department of Shared Accountability – MCPS
  • MAP-R Central – MCPS NWEA/MAP-R Help Desk
  • MCPS Special Programs
  • Parent Information and Training Center

• Parent Forums

  • Davidson Database
  • DC Urban Moms and Dads – Forums
  • MyGiftedLife.org

• The Gifted Classroom

  • ByrdSeed – Practical Ideas for your Gifted Classroom

• Verbal Talent

  • Cognitive Profiles of Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Students – NAGC
  • Developing Verbal Talent – Michael Thompson
  • Nurturing Verbal Talent – Duke TIP
  • Nurturing Verbal Talent – Duke TIP

• You Must Read...

  • “A Response to ‘All Children Are Gifted’” by Michael Clay Thompson (.pdf)
  • 6 year old stares down bottomless pit of despair
  • A Nation Deceived – The Templeton National Report on Acceleration
  • A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children
  • Advocating for Exceptionally Gifted Young People: A Guidebook
  • All Together Now? Educating high and low achievers in the same classroom
  • An Interview with Roland S. Persson: The Talent of Being Inconvenient
  • Astronomer Discovers Center of the Universe
  • Creative Homeschooling: A Resource Guide for Smart Families
  • Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind by Deborah Ruf
  • Tests and Measurements for the Parent, Teacher, Advocate and Attorney
  • What You’ll Wish You’d Known – Paul Graham Essay on High School
  • Why Nerds Are Unpopular – Paul Graham Essay

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