As you can probably guess, I have absolutely zero sadness at the departure of Jerry Weast. Words cannot adequately capture the smarmy arrogance of the man. I had one final chance to catch him in action at the March 28 Board of Education meeting. An overflow crowd of parents representing various interests — including GTA’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘MCPS’
Buh-Bye Jerry Weast, Hello Joshua Starr
Posted in In the News, School, tagged board of education, education, Jerry Weast, joshua staff, maryland, MCPS, stamford on April 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Under a Bushel
Posted in education, Gifted, In the News, School, tagged education, high school, identifcation, maryland, MCEF, MCPS, montgomery county, School on February 28, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Congratulations to Montgomery Blair High School! Blair was honored on February 16 with the Maryland Excellence in Gifted and Talented Education (EGATE) award. It is one of just five schools statewide—and the only high school—to receive the prestigious award, which recognizes outstanding gifted and talented education. MCPS actually issued a press release! For those readers [...]
What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Posted in education, Gifted, In the News, tagged acceleration, curriculum, differentiation, education, elementary school, Gifted, grade acceleration, identification, Jerry Weast, kansas, maryland, MCPS, standards-based on July 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Really, what’s up with those people in Kansas? There they go again, pushing some crazy-ass notion, out of step with the nation… Except, um, maybe this time they’re onto something. GT listservs are humming with the news that Kansas City, Missouri schools are experimenting with the elimination of grade levels, following on the heels of [...]
Let’s Talk About Choice
Posted in education, In the News, tagged charter school, education, elementary school, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS, School on June 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In the reportage following the rejection of the Global Garden Public Charter School, the comment that leapt out to me was one made by Superintendent Jerry Weast on the issue of “choice.” I wanted to be sure it was transmitted correctly, so I dug around to find his actual words. [Note: the MCPS website's Watch [...]
Milestones
Posted in education, Gifted, School, tagged acceleration, differentiation, education, elementary school, exceptionally gifted, Gifted, high school, humanities, Jay Mathews, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, teacher, teen, verbally gifted on June 15, 2010 | 10 Comments »
The other day Husband Dear pointed out a blogging milestone that slipped my notice: sometime in the past month I exceeded 200,000 page views. Thanks to everyone who’s stopped by and who continues to read my musings. A milestone which most certainly did NOT escape attention took place this morning: For the very last time, [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Living a smART Life
Posted in education, Gifted, School, tagged art, dance, education, Gifted, magnet program, MCPS, middle school, music on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you remember commenter Rockzana? I first corresponded with the MCPS middle schooler back in January, when she wrote to alert me to her school’s advocacy page in conjunction with the then looming threats to magnet transportation. [Update: Magnet and special program busing is safe for another year. It's just the Superintendent's failsafe way to [...]
The Budget Cuts Ahead
Posted in education, Gifted, School, tagged budget, differentiation, education, elementary school, Gifted, high school, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS, middle school, School on June 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
And so the school year is ending with a whimper. On Tuesday the Board of Education will vote on the the FY2011 Operating Budget, working from proposed budget cuts put forth by the Superintendent. Chances are very good that Board will accept them. Here’s what’s very likely ahead: Class Size Increase - 1 additional student [...]
-
Recent Posts
-
Recent Comments
koel on Why You Should Fill Out that A… Rachelle on The Early Signs K on Why Elementary Teachers Overlo… Crimson Wife on Decision Time TardieRimlinger on Decision Time tennisschläger test … on Why You Should Fill Out that A… Barry Garelick on Buh-Bye Jerry Weast, Hello Jos… Brandy aka Lil' Momm… on Decision Time Linnea Pyne on Why Elementary Teachers Overlo… Geri on Decision Time Kirsten on Decision Time Irene on SAT Prep…for 7th Gr… SwitchedOnMom on Under a Bushel SwitchedOnMom on Under a Bushel J. on Yet Another List Categories
February 2012 M T W T F S S « May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 -
Top Posts
- Why Elementary Teachers Overlook the Verbally Gifted Child
- Anxiety and Giftedness
- 75th Percentile
- Huh? Acronyms & Jargon
- Just Saying No--to Accelerated Math
- About
- Archive
- "There's Gifted, and Then There's Profoundly Gifted"
- Why You Should Fill Out that Application for the Highly Gifted Center Program
- Gifted Child's Bill of Rights
Twitter.com
Tags
-
del.icio.us
-
-
Blog Stats
- 276,241 hits
Pages
Archives
Meta
