That’s what last week’s article in the Gazette — “New private school in Darnestown geared toward gifted youngsters” — was. Simply sloppy. No doubt it started off as a PR pitch for the new Feynman School (the “Special to…”) but then, in the interest of “balance” decided it needed to tell the MCPS side of [...]
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Sloppy, Sloppy, Sloppy
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Debate Comes to MoCo Middle School
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The gods must be listening. No sooner do I blog about the debate memoir Weisenheimer and the challenges that verbally gifted kids face, than an announcement goes out that a debating opportunity for the younger crowd is coming to Montgomery County. Well, MoCo is a big place, so I should qualify that and note that [...]
Changes in MCPS GT-Land
Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Word got out this week that Kay Williams, Director, Division of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction, will be retiring as of June 30. I wanted to let you know that I will retiring as of June 30 to spend more time with my family and to pursue other interests. Working at MCPS has been exhilarating, challenging, [...]
More Greek to Me
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Since my last post, I’ve come across a few other resources and rather than paste them at the bottom of the previous post, where they might be overlooked, I’m giving them their own post. Thank you Google! With Google Earth you can get a 3D view of the Colosseum and other important Roman monuments, while [...]
Rule Number One
Posted in Learning, Uncategorized on April 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Well it’s good to know I’m not the only one. Yesterday evening I finally dipped my toe into my much neglected feed reader (1000+ unread items! What can I say? I’ve had a torrid fling with College Confidential), and quickly came across two other bloggers who write about being in a place similar to where [...]
We return to our regularly scheduled blog
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yes, I’ve been away. Things have been–still are, really–shall we say, “in flux.” And yes, some posts have been set to “private.” Sorry for the annoyance. The good news is that the NHD paper is done! M. did it–with time to spare–and I am incredibly proud. She is too, as she should be. Footnotes, annotated [...]
I Hate It When…
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I hate it when people write lame excuses for why they haven’t posted in ages. Nonetheless, I posting a lame mea culpa, mea culpa. Last week Haiti consumed me at work. And right now I am in New England, for C.’s boarding school interviews and trying not to be too rude to our hosts by [...]
“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 [...]
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