In this refulgent summer, I’m reading back through the Emerson catalog, especially the early works, including the sermons, and attentive to the evolution, culminating in his “Address” to the graduates of the Harvard Divinity School in 1838. There are many angles from which to approach such...
Stickney coaches high school football at Langley in Fairfax County. For an old country boy with Bear Bryant tendencies, it has been a revelation. Langley is a rich man’s school. “Even our blacks are rich,” says Stickney. “The new cars in the school parking lot belong to the kids. ...
[To wit: someone, somewhere in the USA is probably lobbying some school board to prevent their kid from being taught about this because white people’s feelings or something.] Posted inRecommended Reading,vaudeville Somewhere, buried deep within my summer to-do list, is a low-priority item to...
I loved hearing how the Libens began a beautiful, well-funded whole language school in the 90’s. They were confident in their approach, but at the end of the year their students performed miserably on the reading assessment! When they switched to a more structured approach, their students ...
Did you think an 8th grade reading list could be complete without poetry? Think again! Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems by John Grandits Find it: Amazon In Grandits' collection, an 11-year-old boy narrates the poems which touch on topics like pizza, sisters, school, ima...
Whether it’s kids growing up faster, technology, increasing levels of bullying and awareness, and/or school violence, I couldn’t just read this funny book and glaze over the deeper issues. Where in the past, the book was about reading a light and easy end of year book before sending ...
Big Questions from Little Peopleby Gemma Elwin Harris.“The questions children ask are often so simple that they turn unwittingly philosophical. Harris asked thousands of primary school children to send in their most restless questions, then invited some of today’s most prominent thinkers – in...
old-school, class-AB vivo," the Marantz sounded darker, less extraverted, with "more silence in the silences and more space in the soundspaces." He also found that the Marantz partnered well with Magnepan .7 speakers, pulling out "shovelsful of previously hidden subtleties." The Model 30...
Founded in 2004, Keats School is one of the best and largest Mandarin Chinese schools in China and offers both one-on-one immersion Mandarin courses and small group Chinese classes. Located in Kunming, Keats develops personalized exercises and materials exclusively for you to meet your learning go...
Aimed at primary school-aged kids. Wildlife Books for Kids Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kalluk, Alexandria Neonakis This bedtime lullaby tells the story of a newborn child of the Inuit culture, who receives loving gifts and qualities from all the animals in the Arctic. A peaceful and mindful ...