Monthly Archives: March 2007
MUAE Forum Video-Maya Cole’s response
Question: Would you as a school board member support a referendum to deal with the short fall that the district is currently facing? For example, Carol Carstensen’s version of a referendum. Maya Cole’s response to referendum question (REACH) Posted by: … Continue reading
Gifted Issues
Excerpts from Reaching Gifted Children (Education Week chat) Guests: Karen Isaacson and Tamara Fisher, the co-authors of Intelligent Life in the Classroom—Smart Kids & Their Teachers On Self Advocacy: …I tell my kids that if they are going to self-advocate, … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Best Practices
Fins know secrets to school success
AMPS listserv member Lisa Pugh sent out this article from the recent U.S. News and World Report about why the Fins are leading the world in educational success for their students while also having the smallest achievement gap in the … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Best Practices
Red Herring
In this morning’s Wisconsin State Journal there is a story that again misrepresents the place of Madison School Community Recreation and Fund 80 in the district and the community. The chart comparing Fund 80 levies in Madison to those in … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Budget, Local News, School Finance
Young at Art March 3rd thru April 15th State Street Gallery in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art at 227 State Street.
Organized biennially,Young at Art presents works of art by Madison Metropolitan School District students in kindergarten through Grade 12. The exhibition is the result of a long-standing collaboration between MMoCA and the school district’s Fine Arts Department. Each of Madison’s … Continue reading
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Educating the Whole Child
Excerpt from TeacherKen (posted here and here) As a teacher I know that what occurs in my classroom is a small part of educating my students, even in my own domain of social studies. As a music major who teaches … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Best Practices, Equity, Local News
School Board Election Update Information
Election Day is April 3. Madison has a mayor’s race, several city council races and three city-wide Board of Education races. In the next two weeks, there will be a multitude of candidate forums for the public to learn first-hand … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Elections, Local News
Finally, a big bright light to shine on Reading First
Coverage in today’s NYT of yesterday’s Congressional hearing on the Reading First program saw Education Secretary Margaret Spellings defending the program that has been plagued by accusations that states were steered toward a handful of commercial reading programs and testing … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Best Practices, Local News, National News, No Child Left Behind
Truthiness in Education
Most reports from education policy think tanks are not worth the paper on which they are printed, according to a new education policy research center called “The Think Tank Review Project,” a collaborative research project at the University of Colorado … Continue reading
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Think Recent Test Scores Show Schools are Failing? Think Again!
Despite some recent media reports about declining student test scores, some with problematic methodologies, the author of this piece suggests such reporting has obscured some real successes and that we lose sight of the gains taking place in education. Excerpt: … Continue reading
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