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No Child Left Behind neglected gifted students. That is about to change in...
Dori Kleber Dori Kleber owns and operates GiftedAtlanta.com, a non-commercial online resource for parents of gifted children. She is a parent advocate for gifted education and the mother of two gifted...
View ArticleIndiana Supreme Court upholds voucher program
Breaking news out of Indiana where the state Supreme Court has upheld the state’s voucher program. While Indiana’s Choice Scholarship imposes income caps, they are broader than most voucher programs....
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Can parents trust the state with control of their schools?
Many people in DeKalb and other counties are losing faith in the ability of local education leaders to responsibly manage their schools. Can they trust state leaders to govern more responsibly? That’s...
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New Race to the Top teacher evaluations with strong reliance on test scores...
As expected, House Bill 244 passed both the House and the Senate, incorporating the educator evaluation system piloted by Georgia’s Race to the Top districts into state law. With the Senate vote this...
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Do or die: Last chance for bills in the Legislature, including the...
If you have time today, tune in to watch the last gasp of the 2013 legislative session where guns on campus will be one of the top stories. Today marks the final day when bills either pass or die. The...
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Does a parent have a choice when the school tolerates bullying? Was this...
I’ve been watching a subtitled Swedish mystery series, “Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter,” in which the feisty protagonist is a crime reporter for a major newspaper. In the episode I watched last night,...
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House leader blames “fourth branch of government,” the Board of Regents, for...
A miffed Rep. Alan Powell, R-Hartwell, took to the House well with 25 minutes left in the 2013 session Thursday to decry those who blocked the effort to allow guns on college campuses. He blamed the...
View ArticleIndictments may come today in APS cheating scandal. Grand jury looking at...
The AJC is expecting indictments possibly later today related to the APS cheating scandal first brought to light by the newspaper. When those indictments come down, please be sure to come back to the...
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Former Atlanta school chief Beverly Hall and 34 others indicted in APS...
Former Atlanta Superintendent Beverly Hall was among 35 people indicted today in APS cheating scandal. (AJC photo) Among those named in the indictment handed down tonight by a Fulton County grand jury...
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Poison seeds: The bitter harvest of the APS cheating scandal
In 2009, the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education featured Atlanta’s Parks Middle School on its annual bus tour of high-achieving schools, and I joined the visit. I arrived early in my own...
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Beverly Hall worried about asking too little of inner city students. But is...
Despite all the cheering on the blog that APS administrators are now facing justice for their roles in the CRCT cheating scandal, an unresolved issue remains: Why was there so much cheating in APS?...
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Nearly one in five high school boys diagnosed with ADHD. Is it big problem or...
Mining CDC data, The New York Times is reporting today nearly one in five high school age boys and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit...
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Criminal indictment of Beverly Hall: Is it illegal to be an overly demanding...
Oglethorpe University President Lawrence Schall doesn’t dodge the hard stuff. Proving it again today, he dons his legal robes — he is an attorney – and discusses the nature of the charges against...
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Instant heat in response to NRA study calling for armed officers and...
There are many passionate responses from education leaders today to recommendations from a National Rifle Association- sponsored study that schools hire armed security officers and allow trained staff...
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Seeing teachers as technicians ignores what else they give students:...
Spurred by federal policy, many states, including Georgia, are moving to teacher evaluations that consider student progress on tests. But a rising chorus is challenging the reliance on testing to...
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Alfie Kohn on APS cheating scandal: ‘What if we gave a test and nobody came?’
I interviewed education advocate and writer Alfie Kohn a while back. You can read the 2011 interview here. The APS cheating scandal was in the news at the time, and Kohn told me: The real cheating...
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Bieber fever leads schools in Norway to reschedule exams. Can’t ever see that...
Some schools in Norway are rescheduling exams around a Justin Bieber concert. (AP Photo) No government official in the United States would shrug off a decision by schools to reschedule exams so...
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Bill Gates: We’re fumbling evaluations when we rate teachers on how students...
In a Washington Post op-ed, Bill Gates says there should be a fairer way to evaluate teachers. While he is all for accountability, Gates cautions against using student test scores as the primary basis...
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In black and white: Segregated proms continue but students at Georgia school...
The concept of segregated proms in the South shocked people when the AJC and other newspapers wrote about it a few years back. The first question from readers was how this could still be happening. It...
View ArticleReading between the lines: Florida’s retention program is not worth replicating
Paul Thomas, a Furman University associate professor of education, writes about range of education issues, including the push in South Carolina to follow Florida’s retention policy. This is his second...
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