GPS

Well - I'm up and running. I just hope that I can keep this up.

Perhaps once the new Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) are in place and have been used for a while then the tremendous gaps we are seeing in student's mathematics education will decrease. I find it utterly amazing that students can make it to the 9th grade and cannot do simple arithmetic. The expectations of the state also seem unrealistic - students are expected to know and be able to use concepts that they saw once in 7th grade for two days with no review.

Obviously my magic wand is broken; I guess I'll just have to borrow one!