Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century: Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Far Outliers (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
For several weeks, durai (dry) was Rachel's antonym for we', diti, 'ow (wet, dirty, ouch). She would talk about dirty and dry hands, or ouch (sore) and dry knees. Lately, she has started to use deen (clean) sometimes. Di and dido (big, little) sometimes occur instead of her old favorites wow, wee. She is beginning to use location words hia, dea, roro dea (here, there, over there), and when she bruises...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Meghan Ann Moriarty and Christopher Max Colice were married Saturdayin Boston. The Rev. Susan Spector, an interfaith minister, officiated in the Abbey Room at the Boston Public Library.
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Writing in The Wall Street Journal , Richard Whitmire discusses "Why aren't more men going to college?" An excerpt: Economists at both the Department of Education and the College Board agree that, to ensure high future earnings, men and women have an equal need for college degrees, and yet only women are getting that message. The numbers are startling. This summer the Center for Labor Market...
Slovak Yankee (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This morning I woke up to see the alarms being sounded for the Massachusetts State Library from both my email and blogs. Let's be clear: The Massachusetts State Library is not the Massachusetts State Archives. As a genealogist, I've been to the Archives countless times. I've never been to the State Library. All the good genealogical material isn't there. Massachusetts is so different from other states....
EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Boston still vexed by school busing That they are still doing it at all is the wonder: It destroyed its own reason for existence when it forced most white families out More than three decades after a federal court order forced Boston to desegregate schools by busing black students to white neighborhoods and whites to black areas, the birthplace of public education is still fighting the battle. But...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
By Steve Sailer (posted on vDare.com ) Recently, I’ve been trying to answer the question that nobody else wants asked about the causes of the Great Recession: what percentage of defaulted mortgage dollars did minorities account for ? In doing so, I’ve stumbled upon another important conundrum: As the Federal Reserve continues to take on more power, are the twelve regional Federal Reserve...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Anthony Grafton Ernst Hanfstaengl (center, with raised arm), who served as foreign press chief for the Nazi party, in the Harvard Class of 1909 parade, June, 1934, from Stephen Norwood’s The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower , courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department In 1934, the Harvard class of 1909 held its 25th reunion—then as now an occasion for members of the American...
Notes From D. R. (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The Washington Times on the troubled Boston public schools.
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
BOSTON | More than three decades after a federal court order forced Boston to desegregate schools by busing black students to white neighborhoods and whites to black areas, the birthplace of public education is still fighting the battle. But the lines no longer pit race against race, with 87 percent of the student body now minorities. Now the city is wrestling with school-choice issues and an antiquated...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty Jr., in his quest to unseat Mayor Thomas M. Menino, often rattles off an array of disparaging statistics about the state of the Boston public schools: high dropout rates, too few graduates who finish college, and far too many underperforming schools.
Boston Daily Photo Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
View of the interior courtyard of the Boston Public Library. One could imagine being in another country.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- Set in Boston`s Hyde Park neighborhood, an area not known for its excellent schools, the Boston Preparatory Charter Public School nonetheless has an enviable academic record: Last spring, 100 percent of its 10th-graders received a score of `excellent` or `proficient` in English, science and math on the MCAS, Massachusetts` state-wide exams. By contrast, a much smaller percentage of...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
"The district will be receiving a $750,000 grant from the Wallace Foundation," which "will help the district develop a strategy for rolling out more arts programs, and it could lead to a larger donation to implement more programs."...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Sunday, June 27, 2004 Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate Barrack Obama Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations. The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Stephen Moss has been named president and CEO of National Public Media, the national corporate sponsorship firm for NPR, PBS and Boston public broadcasting affiliate WGBH. He succeeds Robert Williams, who founded NPM’s predecessor company National Public Broadcasting, and served as NPM’s CEO since 2007. Moss joins NPM from online publishing service Evri , where he served as VP of business...
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swetzelx7 | 11/20/2008
The War at Home is about two parents Dave (played by Michael Rapaport, from “Boston Public”) and Vicky (played by Anita Barone, from “The Jeff Foxworthy Show”) and their daily battles against their teenage children to keep their home, their children, and themselves in order.
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