Sold! To Pearson Education! This week brought the news that the school board has sold out MCPS’s elementary curriculum development (We’ll leave aside the fact that the press release was up even before the board voted on the deal. Ugh.) While MCPS minced no words on its wonderfulness, others, including Valerie Strauss of the Post [...]
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Going Once, Going Twice
Posted in education, Gifted, In the News, School, tagged curriculum, education, elementary school, Gifted, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS on June 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What’s the New York Times Trying to Tell Us?
Posted in education, Gifted, In the News, tagged art, dance, education, Gifted, highly gifted on June 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
So what is the New York Times trying to tell us? First there was an outstanding story on May 31 about 2 young American ballet students who moved to Russia to dance with the Bolshoi in pursuit of their art. [Video here. Slideshow here.] It’s a must-read and to my mind gives an answer to [...]
Apologizing for the Rhodes
Posted in Gifted, In the News, tagged college, early college, exceptionally gifted, football, Gifted, highly gifted, sports on May 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Like a lot of nerdy folks, I could totally care less about football. Really. Truly. However about a year and a half ago I came across a story in the New York Times (just about the only place I might run into some sports news) about a young man by the name of Myron Rolle. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
And so it begins: Proposed Cuts to Hit GT Hard
Posted in Gifted, In the News, School on December 12, 2009 | 8 Comments »
It’s been quite a week for education news in Montgomery County, and I’ll have a few more posts coming soon. The big news: the budget crunch comes to MCPS. For over a year we’ve been watching what’s been happening over in Fairfax County, and now it’s our turn. (For proof of my powers of prognostication, [...]
File Under “What Have We Come To?”
Posted in In the News, School, tagged garden, IQ, kindergarten, magnet program, parenting, school garden, standardized testing on November 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It was on the list of most emailed articles for the New York Times this morning: Tips for the Admissions Test … to Kindergarten. Shudder. Test preparation has long been a big business catering to students taking SATs and admissions exams for law, medical and other graduate schools. But the new clientele is quite a [...]
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