Giving tests–the California Standards Test, DIBELS, Woodcock-Johnson NU–all week to my special ed students has made me wonder on more than one occasion just what I’m trying to prove. Okay, I’m a little worn down. By the end of next week I will have given the End of Year (EOY) [...]
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“What kind of airplane is that?”
I read the plaque. “F 104 Starfighter.”
It is suspended in front of the Burbank rec center by a sort of skewer that holds it at a dramatic angle.
“Is it real?”
“Sure, it is.”
We approach the playground behind it, a canopied area [...]
On the tail-end of our Central Coast vacation, I awoke last night to the sounds of merrymakers welcoming the new year–hooting, honking–which was quickly covered by the slow motion heartbeat of the Pacific Ocean. I fell back to sleep, waking up a few minutes ago with a concern that will never change. [...]
I found this speech researching a novel I am writing about the effects on children of the Great Depression. It was given in 1939, at the White House Conference on Children and Youth. It was delivered as part of the fourth such conference, the first taking place in 1909, the last [...]
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