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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Election Day: My High School's Polling Place

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Here in Ann Arbor, we have the relatively simple and yet apparently not too likely to be tampered with paper ballots. They are easy to fill ...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Ypsilanti History: The Desegregation of Ypsilanti Schools

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While it's still Black History Month I thought I would feature this interesting blog (and history of Ypsilanti schools) that I recently ...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Guest Post: This is How Our Public Schools Die

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Occasionally someone volunteers to write a guest post! I think this post, by Steve Norton, the Executive Director of Michigan Parents for Sc...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

When the Custodians Were Cut, Where Were We?

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Those of you who know me outside of my blog may have heard that my daughter Lior, a sophomore at Tufts University in Boston, is the presiden...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Discovering (and Remembering) My First Grade Teacher, Mrs. Delfosse

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My first grade teacher, Doris Delfosse, died recently. My mom sent me her obituary . (Thanks Mom!) There were some things in it that I kne...
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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Louisiana Lesson #1: Plessy v Ferguson

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I spent part of my winter break in New Orleans. And during a cemetery tour, I saw the grave of Homer Plessy. Plessy, as in the famous ...
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Our Public Schools, Our Pride: A Bit of Manchester Schools History

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A meeting at a Manchester school building took me past Alumni Memorial Field. I liked the sign, and when I saw the plaque, I knew there m...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Schools: Plus Ça Change Plus C'est la Même Chose*

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*The more things change, the more they stay the same. Last week I wrote about Freedom Schools and the Freedom School curriculum , and I w...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Freedom Summer (50 Years Old) and Independence Day Thoughts

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I was trying to think of an appropriate blog post in honor of Independence Day, when I heard on the radio that this summer is the 50th anniv...
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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...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Passover, Pedagogy, and Liberation

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Consider subscribing to Ann Arbor Schools Musings by Email! (I know! I put that at the top! Radical, right? Initially, it was an accident,...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

W.E.B Du Bois: Of The Color Line, the Class Line, and a Boyhood in Western Massachusetts

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Photo by Ruth Kraut, 2010 To close out Black History Month,* I thought I'd share some thoughts I had about a visit I made a few sum...
Monday, September 9, 2013

School Security, Sinking Funds, & Sinking Hearts

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Amy Biolchini reported on two important articles about school security in the past couple of weeks. Yes, Alice Street is a small street ...
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Thursday, July 4, 2013

A Look Back at Begole School in Ypsilanti

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Happy July 4th !   In honor of Independence Day, I thought a history post would be in order. From a USGS 1:24,000 Topographic Map, Y...
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