Boxing Day is past, but every day is a good day for some out-of-the-box thinking. This evening, via a daisy chain of tweets, I landed on Seth Godin’s blog and this post. It’s not the rats you need to worry about. If you want to know if a ship is going to sink, watch what [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Out of the Box on Education
Posted in Gifted, Homeschooling, Learning, School on December 29, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Weast’s 2011 Budget: Protection Racket
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged board of education, budget, critical race theory, education, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, parent advocacy, School on December 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Christmas/holiday/blizzard stupor is slowly lifting and as the New Year approaches, parents are beginning to focus on the resumption of school and with it, school issues. Foremost, the Superintendent’s Recommended FY 2011 Operating Budget. You’ll recall that the good Dr. Weast presented the behemoth $2.2 Billion (yes, that’s billion) budget in early December. This [...]
Does Homeschooling Need More Regulation?
Posted in Gifted, Homeschooling, tagged Gifted, Homeschooling, maryland on December 27, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Sometimes you don’t know what’s happening in your own back yard, which is why I so appreciate hearing from people who read this blog. Case in point, a recent email I received from Kate Brunner/Crunchy Mama (“a former DC area resident and graduate of Fairfax County’s so-called gifted program”) alerting me to an article published [...]
Recent Ed Stories Not to Be Missed
Posted in Gifted, In the News, School on December 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Although I haven’t been posting at my normal steady pace, that doesn’t mean that I’m not keeping up with what happening out there in Ed World. And there have been several ed threads/stories/blog posts in the last two weeks that you should be sure not to miss. Jay Mathews on Gifted Ed Reacting to news [...]
The Big Snow and Boots on the Ground
Posted in Home Life, tagged boots, Boston, shopping, snowstorm, teens on December 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was in Boston over the weekend, and just because I missed the Great DC Freakout Snow of 2009 didn’t mean that I wasn’t here in spirit. C. and I hopped a very early flight north on Friday and when we landed I already was in–as my family lovingly likes to call it– “killer poodle [...]
Daniel Lippman: Boy Copy Editor
Posted in Gifted, In the News, tagged verbally gifted on December 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Never heard of Daniel Lippman? Neither had I until Husband Dear emailed a link to a story about him in Politico, with the subject line “Verbally Gifted Kid” and one sentence: “There is a future.” The 19-year-old sophomore at George Washington University has become the Washington press corps’ independent fact checker, copy editor and link [...]
“Math Facts, Please”
Posted in Uncategorized on December 16, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Well the day I never thought would come recently arrived. As we were driving around doing errands over the weekend M., my 7th grader, said, “I really need to learn my multiplication tables. You know, I never really learned my math facts.” Well actually I did know. It’s part of the reason we did testing [...]
Touchy Are We, Dr. Weast?
Posted in In the News, School, tagged high school, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS on December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As I noted, last week was a hot week for education news in MoCo, and nothing got Superintendent Jerry Weast hotter than the news that nary a Montgomery County high school made the U.S. News and World Report “America’s Best High Schools 2010″ ranking. In years past, MCPS proudly fired off press releases announcing that [...]
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