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Thursday, June 15th, 2006At this year’s Celebration of Xcellence (r.) In April we celebrated my brother Jonathan’s selection as a teaching fellow with the NYC Department of Education. Today, he received two (2!) job offers from his first choice school, PS 34, a historically underperfoming elementary and middle school located on Avenue D, directly across the street from [...]
Intensity, frequency, and duration
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005The factors that distinguish ordinary angst from signs of trauma in children. This according to a Partners in Healing training I attended yesterday. posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 10/18/2005 12:50:00 PM 0 comments
“Redshirting” preschoolers
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005Diana and I have to decide whether to bump Judah up to Kindergarten in the next couple of weeks. Deanna Sheng, Tony’s wife — whom I’ve never actually met but feel indebted to already — has generously emailed a number of insightful thoughts on the subject from a teacher’s perspective (which have been converted into [...]
Monday, September 19th, 2005
So said Judah’s teacher Ms. Susan this morning when I dropped him off for Pre-K, which he just started on Monday! So “off the charts” is he that the principal will observe him “helping” in Kindergarten every day this week to decide whether to bump him up. Their only concern is that he’s socially ready [...]
Determination Education
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005“The 85-year-old Kimani, perhaps the world’s oldest elementary-school pupil, toured New York Tuesday to promote a global campaign urging assistance for an estimated 100 million children denied an education because of poverty.” Link.
P-O-R-N Sunday
Sunday, August 21st, 2005Get involved. Talk the S-E-X talk in church, October 9, 2005.
Congratulations, Frey Scholars!
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005The Helen and Marvin Frey Scholarship Fund recently announced its scholars for the 2005-2006 academic year. Congratulations, Iris DeJesus, Kevin Cedeno, and Jonathan Del Rio! Past recipients of the scholarship, which was endowed three years ago to provide college scholarships to deserving youth and young adults served by Abounding Grace Ministries and Generation Xcel, include [...]
I could probably pass, but not without prep
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS, USA. Scary stuff for most college grads today, never mind 8th graders. I didn’t even know what “orthography” is without online help. Is that cheating?
Average students; world leaders
Tuesday, June 7th, 2005President Bush and Senator Kerry were both C-students in college, and contrary to popular perception, Pres. Bush actually had a slightly better GPA (77 to 76). If C-students from Yale become President and runner-up of the most powerful nation in the world, what do A-students accomplish? Or do GPAs not really matter as much as [...]
Where Grace Abounds — UFT President Randi Weingarten spends National Day of Prayer in Church
Monday, May 9th, 2005Randi Weingarten, the president of one of the most powerful teachers unions in the nation, attended the National Day of Prayer service at Abounding Grace Minsitries last Thursday. [Photos courtesy of Mike Mowery. For more pics, go here.] It’s not often that evangelicals and public school union chiefs see eye to eye on educational issues, [...]
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