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The Budget Cuts Ahead
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....
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What’s the New York Times Trying to Tell Us?
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...
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Living a smART Life
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...
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Going Once, Going Twice
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...
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Milestones
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...
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Too Early?
Clara, Clara, Clara. I was resisting wading into the recent story from New York City, that officials are seeking a new exam for admissions of gifted students that may involve testing children as young...
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What’s the Matter with Kansas?
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...
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Being Inconvenient
Let’s just say I’ve read a LOT of articles and books on giftedness over the past 13 years, give or take. So something has to be pretty “wow” to, well, make me go “wow,” or in other words make my “I...
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I Refudiate!
Why? Why Why Why is THIS week National Parenting Gifted Children Week? Does the gifted community really enjoy oblivion, irrelevancy and marginalization? Because seriously people, this has got to be...
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Wisenheimer: A Story of Verbal Giftedness
I was hanging out in the biography section of Borders, banished there because History was M’s section, when the book caught my eye. Red and white cover — curiously several books I’ve bought recently...
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