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Showing posts with label Community. Show all posts
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Ann Arbor Chronicle Column: Students and the Body Politic

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Do you spend your time thinking about what it means to have a free press? Then you might like my latest column for the Ann Arbor Chronicle...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Brush With Fame: Brooklyn Parents Opting Out

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Today, I had a brush with fame. I know, you're thinking that it had something to do with President Obama's visit to Zingerman'...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

OCR Complaint Resolved; Ann Arbor News Article Sows Some Confusion

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Community High School. Picture taken from the CHS web page . Last spring (May 2013), a family leveled a complaint against the Ann Arbo...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Latest Ann Arbor Chronicle Column: Good Ideas, Flawed Process at AAPS

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Here is my latest Ann Arbor Chronicle article. The focus is on Jeanice Swift's new proposals (mostly good) and the school board's la...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

First Day of High School!

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Today is the first day of high school for my son, and the first day of high school in the United States for our exchange student. For those ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Ann Arbor: Important Budget Forums

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You know the space on this blog is valuable, right? Maybe not in terms of money but in terms of those intangibles, like prestige and idealis...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Luck, Reprised

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Here is the link to get to the Community High School lottery list. If you didn't get in, remember: there are lots of other good school...
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Monday, April 9, 2012

The Choosing, Looping, and Making of Teachers

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My friend's daughter co-writes a blog about Jewish texts. (You can find it here .) In a recent post , Maya writes: Our learning for t...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

MIFA Theater "One-Acts" This Friday and Saturday

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This year, the MIFA One-Act State Competition is being held at Dexter High School on Friday and Saturday, February 17th and 18th. You can co...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Theatre. . . Competition?!

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Without much notice or fanfare, high school theater* groups around the state prepare one-act plays for a theater competition--the Michigan I...
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Foul Play? Fair Play? Great Plays

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A friend sent me this note (redacted just slightly for privacy): Hi Ruth, Not sure if you are interested in this kind of stuff - sort of...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Courage in Student Journalism and Other Student Newspaper Awards

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Back in the day. . . when I wrote for my school newspaper. . . it was a monthly. It was an after-school club. We laid things out by hand. My...
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Monday, March 14, 2011

Congratulations! (I'm Not Mocking It)

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Congratulations to the Ypsilanti High School and Community High School Mock Trial Teams that have advanced to the State competition. Last ye...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Results

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Community High's lottery results have been posted. It's a game of chance . Reports are that tomorrow morning (2/16) at 11 a.m., wh...
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Loss

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For Tyne Mosbey and Jake Rachford , recent Community High School graduates who lost their lives in a house fire this past week. May their...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

New Year, New Business

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Here are a few things you might want to know about coming up VERY soon. 1. You might remember that a year ago, during the AAPS budget foru...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

Local Boy Makes Good In A Very Big Education Fishbowl

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I spent this past weekend in the New York area. I was shocked to see the name of someone that I actually had met more than once running a...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

The Theater Moon

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Last Saturday night, with a double bonus of occupied children and no plans, we ended up at the UM ice hockey game--and it was fun. However,...
Monday, September 6, 2010

The Post-Labor Day Start

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At the end of September, 2005, Governor Jennifer Granholm signed into law the requirement that Michigan schools start after Labor Day. Essen...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Jones School Documentary: Request for Help

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I recently got this email, and I am excerpting it because (besides saying nice things about my blog), Charlotte Young Bowens is doing a docu...