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    <description>Gifted &amp; Talented Ass&#39;n of Montgomery County, MD. Effective advocacy in the home school (e.g., for accelerated math) and more.</description>

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      <title>The Vanishing Minutes--An Update</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:16:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>The Singams</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20956</link>
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      <description>After my piece on The Vanishing Minutes of AEI Advisory Committee Meetings </description>
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      <title>The Vanishing Minutes of the AEI Advisory Committee Meetings</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:31:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>The Singams</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20955</link>
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      <description>The handpicked members of the AEI Advisory Committee,  representing the community at large, have apparently been remiss in informing their constituencies of</description>
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      <title>SENG Webinar: Individual Assessment of Gifted Children and Adolescen</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:29:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>africamom</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20954</link>
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      <description>Individual Assessment of Gifted Children and Adolescents 90 Minute SENG Webinar Presentation by Edward Amend, Psy.D. Thursday, November 19 7:30 PM Eastern </description>
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      <title>Re: math tutor</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:39:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Jonah Odim</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20953</link>
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      <description>Simply do a Google search for: Art of Problem Solving ThatQuiz These are very helpfu; the former, for strategy and courses, the latter for drill. jnko ... -- </description>
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      <title>Re: math tutor</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:34:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Jesi Vikram</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20952</link>
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      <description>Hi Jonah Nice talking to you. Please send me the websites. ThanksJesi ... From: Jonah Odim &lt;jonah.odim@...&gt; Subject: Re: [GTAletters] math tutor To:</description>
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      <title>Key 2: MSA &quot;advanced&quot; trends, MAP-R, and Parental Involvement</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:47:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>The Singams</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20951</link>
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      <description>The number of students performing at an &quot;*advanced*&quot; level on 6^th grade MSA &lt;http://mdk12.org/assessments/index.html&gt;s showed a surprising dip from 2008 to</description>
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      <title>Trends in the performance of students scoring ?advanced? on 6th </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:21:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>The Singams</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20950</link>
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      <description>With an abundance of caution, and the proviso that MCPS has a data warehouse that should better answer the question, I draw your attention to the trends in</description>
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      <title>Board of Ed violates Open Meeting Act, again - Navarro &amp; Brandman Bo</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:29:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>churchillclustercoordinator</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20949</link>
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      <description>Board Violates Act, Again &lt;http://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2009/11/board-violates-act-again\ .html&gt;    For the second time in 9 months </description>
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      <title>Middle School Curriculum--submit questions/comments</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:34:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Frederick Stichnoth</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20948</link>
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      <description>Northeast Consortium Meeting Nov. 18, 2009 7:30 pm Briggs Chaney MS 1901 Rainbow Drive Silver Spring Topic: Middle School Curriculum Choices – Presentation</description>
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      <title>Vote Ms Sellitti - Finalist in Gazette&#39;s &quot;My Favorite Teacher&quot;</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:52:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>btadeyl</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20947</link>
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      <description>Cheryl Sellitti from the Cold Spring Center is one of ten finalists in the Gazette&#39;s &quot;My Favorite Teacher&quot; award (Montgomery County/Elementary School</description>
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      <title>Re: IM</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:16:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>keenteam@...</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20946</link>
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      <description>In a message dated 10/30/2009 5:05:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Have you looked at the MCPS IM page? </description>
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      <title>IM</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:05:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>murglass@...</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20945</link>
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      <description>My son is struggling with the unit assessments in IM. He does great on the quizzes. Does anyone have any ideas or resource workbooks that might help? Evidently</description>
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      <title>From the NY Times: How to Improve National Math Scores.</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:05:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alison Gillespie</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20944</link>
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      <description>I&#39;d like to thank Karen for posting her recent excellent piece about problems in MCPS math. Given the discourse on on the topic the last few days, I thought it</description>
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      <title>Re: Montgomery County math curriculum</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:37:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Tatyana Kramskaya</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20943</link>
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      <description>Thank you to everyone who has responded to my question!  This information was extremely helpful.  I wish everyone a nice weekend.</description>
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      <title>Gifted and Talented Girls</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:12:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>The Singams</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GTAletters/message/20942</link>
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      <description>Yes, a few words on that very subject, dedicated to those gifted and talented girls who quietly go on achieving and their families.  Thank you to those who</description>
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