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Showing posts with label first thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label first thoughts. Show all posts
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Today This Blog Is Five Years Old

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Five years ago today I started this blog. Read why here . Five years, two children who have graduated from the Ann Arbor schools, one more...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

Choosing A Kindergarten, Ready for Graduation: Looking at the "Long Haul"

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As I've written about before , when my oldest son was ready for kindergarten, I was choosing between the local Hebrew Day School, our lo...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Alaska History Lesson: The Good Friday Earthquake

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I was looking for some recent news about earthquakes, and I found the most fascinating information about the 50th anniversary of the Good Fr...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Introducing (Again): The Two-Hour Delay

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Happy New Year! Happy Cold Snowy New Year! Happy Cold Snowy Beautiful New Year! I am reposting this post from last year (Feb. 11, 2013)...
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Saturday, September 7, 2013

Ann Arbor's "Exceptional Schools" Campaign

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This is the post where I come clean about something I've been repressing. I cannot stand the Ann Arbor Public Schools "Exceptiona...
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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 ...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

The Challenges of Environmental Education in the 21st Century

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Thirteen years ago, as I prepared to leave the Ecology Center, where I was an environmental educator, I wrote this piece for the Ecology Cen...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

Determinative Architecture and the Roberto Clemente School

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Is determinative architecture even a term? I'm trying to use a phrase that says that architecture can determine a building's uses...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Teachers: Paragon or Pariah?

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Friday, I got an email from my sister at one in the afternoon. "Lynn's kids were at that school. They are safe." One of my ...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Preschool: Ecology, Pacifism, Solidarity

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  I recently got back from Montreal, where I found this lovely mural on a "Service de Garde," or preschool/ch...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

School Supplies

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I happened to be on line at one of our big box stores last week, and in front of me were some people buying school supplies. School suppli...
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Monday, May 21, 2012

The Accidental Essay: Thoughts About Ypsilanti's Budget

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A few weeks ago, I asked a person who sometimes comments on this blog as YpsiAnon to write about the potential consolidation of the Ypsilant...
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Observation and the Science of Journalism

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Today the Ann Arbor Chronicle has a "monthly milestone" column by Dave Askins on the "science" of journalism. It's ...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Testing Tales

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I'm hoping to do a series about testing--talking about the MEAP, the MAP, the ACT, the SAT, the MME, etc. But it's such a vast subje...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Three Years

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January 18, 2012 is the three-year anniversary of my first blog post . Although I don't think I paid attention to this factoid at the t...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Time and Time Again

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Lately my son has been getting a lot of bar and bat mitzvah invitations. A bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah (bar mitzvah for a boy, bat mitzvah fo...
Friday, October 7, 2011

Gender Role Models in the Classroom (My Sister Writes...)

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My sister recently wrote this facebook message to her friends, and I'm reposting it with her permission, because it says so very much ab...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Satire!

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Commentary about teaching the top 10% the way some people recommend we teach the bottom 10% , from the Schools Matter blog . Satire. It puts...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Does 2+2=4? (This is not a math question)

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But Bogin added courses like antimanipulation, which was intended to give children tools to decipher commercial or political messages. He ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Pass this jobs bill and...

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. . . hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged young people will have the hope and dignity of a summer job next year.   (President Obama...