Obscured in history, perhaps because of her gender, Fuller may in fact have played the critical role (as what some call America’s first public intellectual) in putting forward the Transcendentalist ideas of a more humanistic self-directed vision of human progress. Maybe more so than her colleagues Emerson and Thoreau, she championed those ideas in American popular cultural to counter the prevailing top-down model of social development.
Though it may sound like an oxymoron to contemporary UUs, in Massachusetts at the turn of the 19th Century
Dear DAC, The attachment for the bylaws contains the following edits to the May 11 presentation. These changes were suggested by members and the legal review and help with clarity. They have been reviewed by the Executive Board and do not represent substantive changes. It is proposed that suggestions for substantive change to either the revised or certified bylaws be addressed by the amendment process next year. The comparison attachment presents the highlights of the changes from the current certified bylaws to the proposed revised bylaws. The amendments attachment presents one possible approach to implementing the substantive changes suggested by the legal review by the district’s outside counsel. Respectfully submitted, Léo Bennett-Cauchon |
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The incredible class and calm Galarraga has shown is an ideal of a word that has
Victoria Reggie Kennedy received an honorary doctor of laws degree yesterday from the UMass chancellor, J. Keith Motley. (Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff)
Matthew Zisi, 13, of Fredericksburg, celebrates Thursday on spelling a word correctly in the third round of the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington (AP)
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. - Fixing education would go a long way toward fixing the Michigan economy, education officials said Thursday, but there appears to be little consensus on how to fix education, according to a report at mlive.com.
Speaking at the Detroit Regional Chamber 2010 Mackinac Policy Conference, charter public school founder Doug Ross said entrenched bureaucracies stand in the way of education reform in Detroit, while Detroit Public Schools emergency fiscal manager Robert Bobb said the district is willing to compete with public charter schools, the report said.
Meanwhile, Carol Goss, CEO of the Skillman Foundation in Detroit, called for mayoral control of Detroit schools, while Art VanElslander, founder of Art Van Furniture, said he can't find qualified candidates to fill the 100 sales jobs he has open, mlive reported.
Ross, who founded the University Preparatory Academy network, said the key to teaching urban students is to put them in small schools where they have meaningful relationships with educators under a principal who has control of the school, mlive reported.
He said the current public school model may be beyond reform, according to mlive, while Bobb said he believes reform is possible by setting aggressive goals.
VanElslander, representing the business community on the education panel, said, "I'm looking to hire one hundred salesmen right now, and I just can't find them. ... I must
Cuts weren’t necessary
Kevin Manahan’s column “Big blunder cost teachers their good will” (May 27) is all wrong.
Manahan assumes Gov. Chris Christie’s budget cuts are necessary. They are not necessary at all. Christie has chosen to address the state budget with drastic cuts in essential services instead of raising taxes in a progressive manner. He makes the working people of New Jersey, instead of those who earn higher incomes, take the pain.
This is wrong, fiscally and morally. We should reject this so-called plan to enrich the rich at the expense of the rest.
Manahan claims teachers should take pay cuts because other citizens have taken pay cuts, lost their jobs, etc. This too is absurd. Has Manahan taken a pay cut because many of his readers have lost jobs?
