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Great Responses

Alan Singer | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Joe Klein, Cupcakes, Bake-Sale-Ban, Michael Bloomberg, School Reform, New York Department of Education, Middle School, Education Reform, Cupcake Ban, New York Board of Regents, New York News
Alan Singer

I've received some amazing responses emailed to me directly to my initial entries on the Huffington Post about education and life in Michael Bloomberg's New York.

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Just Listen - Get Your Kid Off to the Best Start in School

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, Children, High School, Middle School, Schools, Parenting, Mark Goulston, Future, Living News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

Whenever your preteen or teenage kid has screwed up, teaching them a lesson after the fact isn't exactly the easiest task.

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Judges Gone Wild

Dennis Danziger | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Ginsburg, Public School, Strip-Search, Savana Redding, Zero Tolerance Policy, Safford School District vs Redding, Middle School, War on Drugs, Pranks, Politics News
Dennis Danziger

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing school administrators to order students to take it all off, there may be some uncomfortable moments in tough inner city schools like the one where I teach.

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That Student-Teacher Thing

Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Student-Teacher Relationship, Elementary School, Goodbye Columbus, Bernard Malamud, Test Scores, Education, Merit Pay, Public School, High School, Middle School, I.B. Singer, Teachers, Catcher in the Rye, Philip Roth, Living News
Dennis Danziger

What I remember most about Ms. Fitzgerald's class is that when I wasn't staring at the clock, I was deciding which of my body parts to rip off and hand her in protest.

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5th Grader to Obama: "No school on Fridays. Less homework. Stop the war. Stop global warming."

Ted Wells | Posted 02.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Green, Survey, Letters to Obama, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Children, Kids, Environmentalism, The Future, Middle School, Obama for 5th Graders, Green News
Ted Wells

Erin, grade five: "I think you should pay attention to global warming. Why? Because global warming is happening on our planet Earth where both you and I live."

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I Almost Forgot, I Hate Politics

Leighann Lord | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Childhood Memories, Obama Inauguration, Self-Esteem, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Junior High School, Memories, Teenagers, Politics, Elections, Self Esteem, Adolescence, Seventh Grade, Inauguration, High School, Middle School, Student Council, Politics News
Leighann Lord

In seventh grade, we set up my school's first student council. Being a shoe-in for valedictorian I naturally planned to run for president, until I found out that my best friend, Jennifer, was running too.

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