Michael Hamburger (Independent)
Michael Peter Leopold Hamburger, poet and translator: born Berlin 22 March 1924; Assistant Lecturer in German, University College London 1952-55; Lecturer, then Reader, in German, Reading University 1955-64; FRSL 1972-86; OBE 1992; married 1951 Anne File (one son, two daughters); died Middleton, Suffolk 7 June 2007....more...Carrabelle High students show writing talent (Tallahassee Democrat)
When Deborah Reed left Florida A&M University to teach English and writing at Carrabelle High School, she didn't realize that in her first year she would discover over 50 new authors waiting on her. Reed's students recently produced , "Voices from Room 305," a collection of short stories, essays and poems taken from class assignments that Reed had given during the school year....more... District buffers college-prep English (The Californian)
TEMECULA ---- With a growing number of college freshmen taking remedial English, Temecula district officials are launching a class meant to improve their high school students' skills before they move on to higher education....more... Snitching in Trenton (Trentonian)
For The Trentonian TRENTON - Donna Smith's English students at Trenton High School know all too well why city police have such a tough time getting witnesses to talk about crime on the street: It's called the G-Code, or Ghetto Code, and it demands silence in the face of authority....more... Bookmarks (San Antonio Express-News)
Book reviews...more... Learning as we go (The News & Observer)
We're more than a month into the changes we've made to this page, and we've learned some things. The "Local Hero" feature introduced us to Freda Jeffreys, 85, of Rolesville. She just became a published author with a book of poems...more... Class Notes: Book burning inspires book fair; Shalhevet scribes score; Rocket scientists among us (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
The students at Milken Community High School's Middle School threw a massive book fair for 250 kids from Sylvan Park Elementary School, whom they've been tutoring through the KOREH L.A. reading preparedness program....more... The Revival of Veblenian Institutional Economics (RedNova)
By Hodgson, Geoffrey M The novelties of today are a ... later generation of the commonplaces of the day before yesterday. Thorstein Veblen, Absentee Ownership (1923) Institutional economics is more than a century old....more... Senior scholarships awarded at PVHS (Pahrump Valley Times)
Proud parents and future college students packed the Pahrump Valley High School gym with fingers crossed and breath held in hopes they would be a recipient of one of the many scholarships slated to be handed out Wednesday evening....more... |