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What MCPS Employees Think About Their Schools, Part Five

By Adam Pagnucco. March 12, 2024 Montgomery Perspective Part One explained the methodology of MCPS’s staff climate survey.  Part Two summarized some stats from FY23.  Part Three looked at five survey questions on which MCPS did well.  Part Four looked at five survey questions on which MCPS…..

MoCo’s Economy is Falling Behind: Real Per Capita Personal Income

By Adam Pagnucco. from Montgomery Perspective December 26th 2024 Part One summarized the premise of this series: an examination of key stats from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) comparing Montgomery County to its largest neighbors.  Part Two looked at population.  Part Three looked at gross domestic…..

MoCo’s Economy is Falling Behind: Real Per Capita GDP

By Adam Pagnucco. Part One summarized the premise of this series: an examination of key stats from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) comparing Montgomery County to its largest neighbors.  Part Two looked at population.  Part Three looked at gross domestic product (GDP).  Now…..

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MCPS’s Troubling Literacy and Math Scores

December 11, 2024 4 Min Read By Adam Pagnucco. Last fall, MCPS released its spring 2024 Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP) results by school.  For the first time my sources can remember, MCPS released them in spreadsheet format rather than pdf, a positive step for transparency. …..

I Tried to Teach My Son Soccer. Here’s What He Taught Me.

By Rory Smith Rory Smith has been watching soccer for 40 years and reporting on it for 20, eight of them at The New York Times. A few weeks ago, the soccer team that occupies rather more of my thoughts than…..

Some Montgomery County high schools will offer a Holocaust studies course

Some Montgomery high schools will offer Holocaust studies as a semester-long elective course, following a school board vote earlier this month. By Nicole AsburyNovember 18, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST Washington Post Amid calls for Montgomery County Public Schools to educate…..

Feeling dejected? My mother helped give me a second wind.

By Brian Broome November 11, 2024 at 1:09 p.m. EST Washington Post Every Sunday, like many Black boys way back when, I was stuffed into a suit, a comb was run through my hair, and I was dragged off to church very…..

Taking the Pulse of Our Nation’s Civic Health

Every two years, AmeriCorps partners with the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct the Current Population Survey Civic Engagement and Volunteering Supplement, the most robust survey about civic engagement across the country and over time. The most recent survey shows the…..

If You’re Sure How the Next Four Years Will Play Out, I Promise: You’re Wrong

By Adam Grant  New York Times November 12th 2024 Dr. Grant, a contributing Opinion writer, is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Humans may be the only species that can imagine an unknown future. But that doesn’t mean we’re any good at it……