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Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Silence Is Assent: Je Suis Charlie #charliehebdo

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Je Suis Charlie. I Am Charlie Hebdo. A collage of Charlie Hebdo covers. Taken from Berlin's BZ paper. I'm posting t...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Five Things You'll Want to Know--In No Particular Order

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1. Jenna Bacolor, Director of Ann Arbor Public Schools Rec & Ed, asked me to post this:  The Ann Arbor Public Schools and the City of...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

BREAKING: Education Achievement Authority Looks for Teachers to Teach in a "Christian Setting"

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The Education Achievement Authority (EAA), the controversial publicly-funded school system that has taken over 15 "failing" school...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

State 1, Local 0: The MEAP and Three Star Holidays

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A few days ago I was contacted by someone from the Arab American Parent Support Group, who was concerned that the MEAP was scheduled to be g...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The Three Star Holiday: Ann Arbor Guidelines

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"The three star holiday," someone wrote me. "Is that really a thing ?" Why yes, yes it is. At least in Ann Arbor. In...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Around the County

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Superintendent Searches and Related Information Ann Arbor is in the middle of a superintendent search. I've written about it here . ...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Standing at the Creation of Public Schools in the United States

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This week it's the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks. In the Jewish tradition, we are all supposed to see ourselves as if...
Sunday, December 9, 2012

Despair. Hope. Chanukah.

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It has been a rough week in the political arena. The push for privatization of public education. . . the ramming through of the freedom to f...
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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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

News Hits

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Milan schools are thinking about whether they should drop the Big Reds name and the Native American logos associated with it . I guess anoth...
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Save the Golden Frog! A View of the Ann Arbor Open Multicultural Fair

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Sure, there's lots of hard-hitting news to be written, but I thought I'd start off, post-winter break, with a look back at the last ...
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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...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

UPDATED: School Prayer: Did she really say that?**

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I just noticed this Ann Arbor Journal article, ANN ARBOR: School board candidates meet with cabinet staff, ask questions at forum , that ca...
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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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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Links to Make You Think

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An analysis of special education issues in New Jersey . I know, it's not Michigan, but what I found especially interesting is just how v...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

December Anxiety

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I meant this post as a follow-up to my earlier post, Ramadan Mubarak . I started this around the time of the Jewish New Year, and it seemed ...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Ramadan Mubarak: A Blessed Ramadan

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First--to any Muslim readers--may you have a Ramadan Mubarak , a blessed month of Ramadan. I started this post a few weeks ago, intending to...