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The End of Days
The month of April was a bit unsettled in Connecticut this year. First, we had the earthquake that no one…
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Merit Pay, Anyone?
I wasn’t going to weigh in on this because, well, everyone else has, and what am I going to say…
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Gina
Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austro-Hungarian writer who was born, wrote, and died a long time ago. He was most…
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The End of the World
In the nearly twenty years I’ve been teaching in the US public schools, I’ve had quite a few kids walk…
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What They Remember
It’s been the summer of meeting up with former students, students I haven’t seen in more than a decade, a…
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Living in America
There are many things I could write about as the dark and confusing year of 2015 draws to its close,…
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Forty Days in the Wilderness
And so…as the school year draws to its close and the frenzy of testing slows, (but does not yet completely…
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Testing Testing One-Two-Three
On page 58 of the January 26th issue of The New Yorker, there is a cartoon showing a numb-looking teacher…
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They Flew Through The Air
One of the things the new Common Core emphasizes is the ability to distinguish between serious and not-so-serious sources of…
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No Pain No Gain
I was watching PBS news the other night and saw an interview with Amanda Ripley, the author of the new…
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Living in America
There have been days since my father and mother passed away three-and-a-half years and a year ago respectively when the…
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Boat People
So, Thanksgiving is once more upon us, the season in which where I work, little lines of boys and girls…
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School Days
So the Taliban are now shooting girls who want to go to school, are they? Not that this is really…
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First Aid
On September 18th, the US government announced that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), after two decades of…
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September 11th
And so another anniversary of the September 11th bombing of the World Trade Center has come and gone replete with…
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The Pip Squeak Sikh
Several years ago, on the first day of school, a young child was delivered by their mother to the class…