Tag: school
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Book review: The Political Classroom by Diana Hess & Paula McAvoy
The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education by Diana E. Hess My rating: 4 of 5 stars I sit on the board of a pre-K through 12 school, and this book was recommended to me by a faculty member. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, which uses philosophical thinking and empirical science to frame…
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China Trip Preparation (and irony)
Our 16 year old son is going to rural China (Yunnan Province) for 6 weeks as part of a school program called China Fieldwork Summer. He is very excited about the trip (which makes him a better person than me). There was a meeting the other night regarding the trip with parents and many of…
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Parent Potluck 2017
One of the lovely traditions at the kids’ school is that of parent potlucks. During the fall, various parents volunteer to host potlucks at their homes for the parents of the grade. We always try to host at least one, but sometimes schedules get in the way. After not being able to host last year,…
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8th grade graduation
Our son graduated from 8th grade a few weeks ago in a lovely ceremony held at the school. Being a 14 year old boy with only an embryonic frontal lobe (at best), he neglected to mention that he was part of an ensemble that was singing as part of the ceremony. (If you knew the…
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Life on the International Space Station (interview with Dan Tani)
As part of his 8th grade science project, our son had to do a podcast about life on the International Space Station. Fortunately, a friend of ours, Dan Tani, is a former astronaut who actually spent significant time on the space station. Dan very kindly came over to our house to be interviewed for this…
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Dinner party – December 2015
Some friends of ours were hosting a dinner party as part of a school event, and we offered to help out with the cooking. They kindly agreed to let us do so and, again, with major help from Robert, Jim’s nephew, we served the following: Apple rutabaga soup with gougeres and Parmesan tuiles (wine: 2002…
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Winter Holiday Concert
Here is Weiwei’s handchime choir performance at the school’s winter holiday concert. (Which, of course, begs the question of what winter holiday you are celebrating on January 16, 2014.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl8UVQk4rs&feature=youtu.be
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Snow Day Activities
While the MLK long weekend gave us sunny and even warm (relatively speaking) weather, Tuesday brought us 6 inches of snow. For hardy Midwesterners and New Englanders, this amount might be a mere blip on the winter radar. However, for the mid-Atlantic and for DC in particular, it’s enough to shut down the federal government…
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Teaching at Stanford Law School
For the months of April and May, I have been teaching a class at Stanford Law School called “Internet Torts and Crimes.” This means I’ve been flying out once a week to Palo Alto to teach the class. Teaching the class has been a blast! The students have all been great, and I have learned…
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 14
Technically, I suppose we aren’t the Mole Family anymore, as we have moved above ground (shading our eyes from the vicious daylight). But since this is a story of our continued renovations, I feel it justifies the heading. Our driveway and front yard are now what’s being renovated (for the most part—there are still parts…