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Career Day!!

What a wonderful event! Yesterday our middle school held its second annual Career Day, giving all 1100 stuents a remarkable learning opportunity. This year’s event was even a bigger sucess that last year!   I must stop here and loudly thank my guest and airline pilot, Captain Eric Snyder, for  attending. Not only did he [...]

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NCLB has given all of us negative self image

“Omigod! I would totally kill for her API!”   We had an interesting discussion at our faculty meeting yesterday morning: if we could have any intervention to raise student achievement, what could it be? “Raising student achievement?” This is Edu-code for test scores and everyone knows it. And I had an epiphany. I know a great [...]

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Protection for Students’ First Amendment Rights

This morning’s Los Angeles Times came with a fascinating, and for hysterical librarians like me, rather exciting headline: “New California law protects school journalism advisors. The act, said to be the nation’s most stringent, prohibits school administrators from retaliating against advisors for trying to protect student press freedoms.” According to the article by Robert Lopez, over the [...]

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