Most K-12 education time is spent on the bulk of the children in the middle with some attention to those with special needs. Rarely do we hear or read about "gifted" children. Why? It seems that there is concerted effort to make everyone "equal". Excellence is downplayed because other children not so well wired may feel bad about themselves. Well the time has come to focus on those who excel either by grit or by ability or parents who push and prod and help. So, today we bring you an article published at Verywellfamily. The writer is Carol Bainbridge. Please note that the website may earn from any purchases you make through links they provide. Understanding that we still think their … [Read more...]
Massachusetts’s Rejection of Common Core Test Signals Shift in U.S.
Elizabeth DiNolo, center, a teacher at Rumney Marsh Academy in Revere, Mass., handed out graded tests in her eighth-grade algebra class this month. CreditCharlie Mahoney for The New York Times BOSTON — It has been one of the most stubborn problems in education: With 50 states, 50 standards and 50 tests, how could anyone really know what American students were learning, or how well? At a dinner with colleagues in 2009, Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts’s commissioner of education, hatched what seemed like an obvious answer — a national test based on the Common Core standards that almost every state had recently adopted. Now Dr. Chester finds himself in the awkward position of walking away … [Read more...]