The Carnival of Education appeared five days ago, but I have been slow to realize I was mentioned. It’s odd to me that a post about cursive writing stirred up so much interest, but I thank EdWonk for steering folks this way, and welcome to you!
Our English Department consists of three teachers — or four, if you count the college counselor who will teach a short course to seniors who are going to Israel this year — but it feels more like three. Of course, I’m one of them. The other two are Randal and Josh. I am in the…
Have you signed up yet? Look for my tribute to Eric Andrew Lehrman on September 11, 2006 at my personal blog, Much Madness is Divinest Sense.
I’m ready for school to start on Monday. I have my syllabi printed and photocopied. I have actually color-coded my classes this year in an attempt at organization. I have lessons planned. I know what I’m going to do in all the classes I teach for the next few weeks, even if I don’t have…
I feel good about this week. My senior class started A Streetcar Named Desire, and they are enjoying it. Well, it’s just a really good play, isn’t it? They’re excited to watch the movie when we finish. One of my ninth grade classes finished phrases with a quiz and performed very well on it. I…
I know this isn’t my genealogy blog, but I was lucky to be the recipient today of a CD full of amazing pictures of my family taken from the 1880’s to 1960’s. The picture below is of students at Miss Gilbert’s Music and Elocution classes at the Parker Institute in 1891-92 in Whitt, Texas. My…
NEW YORK — Kimani Ng’ang’a waited more than eight decades for his first day of school. The Kenyan villager wants to make sure nobody else must wait that long.The 85-year-old Kimani, billed as the world’s oldest elementary-school pupil, toured Manhattan to promote a global campaign urging assistance for an estimated 100 million children denied an…
