Secular/sacred 11th-16th Century: Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Far Outliers (Free subscription) | yesterday
For several weeks, durai (dry) was Rachel's antonym for we', diti, 'ow (wet, dirty, ouch). She would talk about dirty and dry hands, or ouch (sore) and dry knees. Lately, she has started to use deen (clean) sometimes. Di and dido (big, little) sometimes occur instead of her old favorites wow, wee. She is beginning to use location words hia, dea, roro dea (here, there, over there), and when she bruises...
Far Outliers (Free subscription) | yesterday
For several weeks, durai (dry) was Rachel’s antonym for we’, diti, ‘ow (wet, dirty, ouch). She would talk about dirty and dry hands, or ouch (sore) and dry knees. Lately, she has started to use deen (clean) sometimes. Di and dido (big, little) sometimes occur instead of her old favorites wow, wee. She is beginning [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Meghan Ann Moriarty and Christopher Max Colice were married Saturdayin Boston. The Rev. Susan Spector, an interfaith minister, officiated in the Abbey Room at the Boston Public Library.
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Writing in The Wall Street Journal , Richard Whitmire discusses "Why aren't more men going to college?" An excerpt: Economists at both the Department of Education and the College Board agree that, to ensure high future earnings, men and women have an equal need for college degrees, and yet only women are getting that message. The numbers are startling. This summer the Center for Labor Market...
Slovak Yankee (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
This morning I woke up to see the alarms being sounded for the Massachusetts State Library from both my email and blogs. Let's be clear: The Massachusetts State Library is not the Massachusetts State Archives. As a genealogist, I've been to the Archives countless times. I've never been to the State Library. All the good genealogical material isn't there. Massachusetts is so different from other states....
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
By David Lambert - Paramount Home Entertainment has announced that Beverly Hills, 90210 - The 9th Season, the next-to-last season of the original show, is coming to DVD on February 2nd. This 1146-minute... (more)
EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Boston still vexed by school busing That they are still doing it at all is the wonder: It destroyed its own reason for existence when it forced most white families out More than three decades after a federal court order forced Boston to desegregate schools by busing black students to white neighborhoods and whites to black areas, the birthplace of public education is still fighting the battle. But...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Canadian actress JESSALYN GILSIG hasn't let fame go to her head - the TV star is plotting a back-up career by catering private parties in her spare time.Gilsig has...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
By Steve Sailer (posted on vDare.com ) Recently, I’ve been trying to answer the question that nobody else wants asked about the causes of the Great Recession: what percentage of defaulted mortgage dollars did minorities account for ? In doing so, I’ve stumbled upon another important conundrum: As the Federal Reserve continues to take on more power, are the twelve regional Federal Reserve...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Anthony Grafton Ernst Hanfstaengl (center, with raised arm), who served as foreign press chief for the Nazi party, in the Harvard Class of 1909 parade, June, 1934, from Stephen Norwood’s The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower , courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department In 1934, the Harvard class of 1909 held its 25th reunion—then as now an occasion for members of the American...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
In one room, six parents shuffled decks of cards and tossed plastic chips, learning a game that teaches kindergartners to count. In another, more than a dozen grandmothers and mothers received pointers on how to control their tempers and discipline the infants, children, and teenagers in their care. In another classroom at University of Massachusetts in Boston, overwhelmed parents learned ...
Notes From D. R. (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
The Washington Times on the troubled Boston public schools.
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
BOSTON | More than three decades after a federal court order forced Boston to desegregate schools by busing black students to white neighborhoods and whites to black areas, the birthplace of public education is still fighting the battle. But the lines no longer pit race against race, with 87 percent of the student body now minorities. Now the city is wrestling with school-choice issues and an antiquated...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty Jr., in his quest to unseat Mayor Thomas M. Menino, often rattles off an array of disparaging statistics about the state of the Boston public schools: high dropout rates, too few graduates who finish college, and far too many underperforming schools.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
( Boston College ) Overcoming classroom pressures calls for "mindful teaching" that helps teachers lead themselves, their schools and their students to a more satisfactory and successful classroom experience, authors argue in new book.
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