Posts Tagged as ‘schools’

August 28, 2008

Classroom teaching, for the love

Like a first kiss, the beginning of the school year holds immeasurable promise and the chance to begin anew and discover the world and ourselves in a different way. Delivered without notes, award-winning playwright Margaret Edson, a Smith College alumna who teaches kindergarten in the Atlanta public school system, had quite a bit to say at Smith’s [...]

April 29, 2008

Countin’ down the minutes

This Thursday is May 1st, or International Workers Day. It is historically a day of protests–Ok, granted, I think some cultures have done other things on May Day like danced around some decorated twigs or something. (But not us punk rock socialists! YEAH!). For the past several years, immigrant rights groups have organized and [...]