Parent trigger bill stalls in Senate: The trigger wasn’t pulled but the bill...
Earlier this session, folks in the Georgia Senate told me that the parent trigger bill was unlikely to win passage. I thought they were wrong when the bill flew through the House but today’s events...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
View ArticleA ‘kissing cousin’ of segregated proms: segregated high school reunions. Are...
A reader of the segregated prom blog sent me a note about something that DeKalb school chief Michael Thurmond referenced in a recent speech, racially segregated class reunions. Thurmond said that his...
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Boston tragedy: A picture that says 1,000 words and inspires thousands more...
This 8-year-old boy is one of the victims of the Boston Marathon attacks. His name is Martin William Richard. His mother and sister were also seriously injured. Many people, including the folks at the...
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