Pickering Academic Assessments Offers Tutoring, Acceleration Classes
Pickering Academic Assessments is now offering two programs to parents of children who need homework or tutoring help in order to be more successful in public education, according to Jean Pickering. Pickering, a veteran public educator who has been a classroom teacher, counselor, curriculum coordinator, and high level administrator, has entered the private sector with a range of services to meet...
Veteran Public Educator Jean Pickering Enters Private Sector
Jean Pickering has profound respect for the vast majority of classroom teachers, assistant principals, and counselors who labor daily in public education working on behalf of the children of Texas. Why? It’s because she is a veteran public educator who until recently was fully engaged with her professional peers doing her very best to meet the educational needs of a diverse array of children who...
Pickering Develops Academic Audit For Your Child
Pickering Academic Assessments is offering for a limited time the opportunity for parents to obtain one of its “Classroom Instructional Audits” at absolutely no charge. The limited, special offer will be available to the first 25 families who register their children for the academic assessment. Students must be currently enrolled in the 6th through 10th grades in public education, Jean Pickering...
Pickering Offers Alternative High School Diploma Programs
There are at least two kinds of students who can benefit from pursuing their high school diplomas from Capstone Classical Academy, according to founder Jean Pickering. Capstone offers three reputable, accredited online high school diploma programs from its campus at 515 Pin Oak Road in Katy near the Katy Mills Mall. One of the programs also offers a more limited approach allowing a student to...
Noted Civil Rights Attorney Retains George Scott
Noted Texas civil rights attorney Larry Watts has retained George Scott to consult with him on cases and due process hearings involving his clients who are classroom teachers or public school administrators. Watts also represents families of students involved in litigation with school districts. “Many cases in which I represent public school educators include matters of educational accountability...
The 5 Elements of Education Reform - Series Compiled And Republished From 2009
The 5 Essential Elements Of Reform - 1 There are five elements, which I will spell out in detail, that would create a perfect storm of educational reform in a community if they could be mustered in unison. However, empirical history and harsh reality dictate that two of the five are either systemically unattainable or consistently unachievable. These two - local news media and business community...
Statistical Certitude Not Always Required For Genuine Analysis
Every human condition, circumstance or possibility does not require statistical certitude to evaluate potential, probable, or actual meaning. In fact, let me be so bold. Over-dependence upon insistence of statistical certitude of every aspect of the above can be counterproductive in the real lives of parents and students. Wow! What a start! As a totally ‘inside’ joke left publicly...
Joining Us From Houston Chronicle Advertisement: Here’s A Good Place To Start
George Scott Reports has placed a standing advertisement in The Houston Chronicle’s Katy section of its online publication. It’s the first of two marketing efforts we will make this month to publicize the website in different mediums. For those linking to us from that source, we think you will quickly discover that George Scott Reports is a unique brand of citizen-journalism bearing...
George Scott Reports At 6 Months; Goals Met & Not Met; How Do Katy I.S.D Graduates Perform At UT Austin? That And More Coming
As Spring break ends for Katy I.S.D., George Scott Reports reaches its six-month anniversary of publication. Some key goals have been accomplished while one major one has not been. I’ll begin addressing that one goal tomorrow (Monday, March 23) when a standing advertisement in The Houston Chronicle begins its publication schedule in the Katy section of that newspaper’s online publication. Within...
The Past Is Prologue Because Nothing Is Changing As Far As The Board
Just because I said I had no interest in this year’s school board election for Katy I.S.D. did not mean that I wouldn’t use last year’s election to explain why. At this point in this community’s life (and most communities for that matter), it simply does not matter who seeks or serves on the board. They are too often cut from the same mold of individuals who simply have not and do not prepare...