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From left, top row, Rebecca Law of Haverhill and Jen Hogan of Beverly. Bottom row, Robin Doherty of Danvers and Tara Ellis of Merrimac. (Courtesy photographs.)
Pentucket Regional School District has filled four positions in anticipation of the next school year.
Superintendent Justin Bartholomew said the new hires are Rebecca Law of Haverhill, assistant principal and SPED team coordinator for the Dr. John C. Page Elementary School in West Newbury; Jen Hogan of Beverly, literacy and humanities coordinator and coach for grades kindergarten through six; Robin Doherty of Danvers, instruction and curriculum coordinator and coach for grades seven through 12; and Tara Ellis of Merrimac, special education program coordinator.
Malden Musings: Bobby Sager s Doors
Peter Levine
Last time we heard chatter about Bobby Sager it was regarding the film project The Philanthropist. A TV show (somewhat) based on Bobby s life. Bobby is one of Malden s biggest success stories. He embodies everything good that Malden has ever had to offer. He is filthy rich but ya wouldn t know it. That s cuz he s from Malden! I got this from one of the many web pages I pulled up on Bobby, On any given day you might find Sager living in a tent in Karachi, sharing a toilet with 40 monks in the Himalayas, working alongside President Kagame in Rwanda, or discussing science education with the Dalai Lama in India. He is most comfortable in some of the most dangerous places on earth trying to make a difference by hands-on helping people. Through his foundation, Sager spends time in villages and cities in developing countries using the good old fashioned hands-on perspective and eyeball to eyeball connection to conceive, develop and
A family of fowls has made its home at a Massachusetts high school. Malden High School Principal Chris Mastrangelo says students and staff noticed a turkey nesting right outside the entrance of the school about a month ago. Sign up for our Newsletters Everyone kept their eyes on the eggs as they entered the building, and they noticed that the eggs had hatched on Tuesday. The hen and her 11 babies, which are called poults, are now roaming near.
When Teaching About The Holocaust Isn t Enough
Brittany Burns teaching her Fragility of Democracy course at Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough.
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When Teaching About The Holocaust Isn t Enough | May 5, 2021
Just months after former President Donald Trump took office in 2017, militant neo-Nazi groups rioted in the streets of Charlottesville, Va., carrying torches and chanting Jews will not replace us!
Three days later, someone threw a rock at the Holocaust Memorial in downtown Boston. Bystanders chased and tackled the perpetrator, a 17-year-old from Malden.
Greg Hurley heard the news with horror. At the time, he was a social studies teacher in charge of the history curriculum at Malden High School, where the suspect was enrolled. Because the coursework included lessons about Nazi Germany s mass slaughter of 6 million Jews during World War II, the father of one- and four-year-olds started to reckon with why his efforts hadn t succeeded.