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May 11 2021
It wasn t easy to write or publish The Great Offshore Grounds, but Portland author feels the love from others.
Lived experiences often fuel writers, and Vanessa Veselka has walked a lot of paths in her life literally and figuratively.
Imagination gives way to the file folder in her head, as the biography on her website states, after experiencing being a teenage runaway, a sex worker, a musician, a union organizer and a student of paleontology, all of which she unabashedly owns. Hitchhiking 20,000 miles as a teenager? Living under the Burnside Bridge? Writing songs and playing guitar for a band?
Robert Slavin, Who Studied How Children Learn, Dies at 70
He favored phonics to teach reading and grouping students with different aptitudes rather than by age or grade.
The education professor Robert Slavin in an undated photo. He was an early proponent of cooperative learning, an approach through which small teams of students with different academic abilities worked together. Credit.Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University
May 11, 2021
Robert E. Slavin, a sociologist whose rigorous research into how children learn helped shift the emphasis in classrooms across the country toward teaching reading through phonics, mixing students of different aptitudes rather than educating them on separate tracks, and testing them for vision and other factors that could affect their education, died on April 24 in Baltimore. He was 70.
Ann Arbor author’s book examines Tulsa Race Massacre while he leads search for victim remains
Updated May 10, 2021;
Posted May 10, 2021
University of Michigan lecturer and New York Times bestselling author Scott Ellsworth is preparing to release his second book on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, THE GROUND BREAKING: An American City and Its Search for Justice on May 18.Photo provided | Scott Ellsworth
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ANN ARBOR, MI - Shortly after arriving home from another trip to his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Scott Ellsworth explains his two roles involving the historical documentation of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
The first is as an author on the verge of releasing his second published book on the subject titled “The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice,” which already has earned praise from everyone from Oprah Winfrey, who hailed it as one of the “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May,” to Beto O’Rourke, who called it “heartbre
A bill in the Massachusetts State Legislature spearheaded by a Harvard alum would require all students enrolled in the stateâs schools and colleges â including Harvard â to complete fire safety training.
The bill â which would mandate a fire safety curriculum and proficiency assessment to gauge student mastery of the material â was introduced in February by State Representative Marjorie C. Decker and State Senator Sal N. DiDomenico in their respective chambers, both Democrats who represent Harvardâs district. As of March 29, the bill has been referred to the committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security for further consideration.
The legislation originated in advocacy by Lauren K. Gibbs â77, who lost her daughter Margalit âMaraâ Gibbs, a student at Reed College in Portland, Ore., in an off-campus fire in February 2017. The fire started in an apartment Mara Gibbs shared with two roommates and after being awakened by the heat and fumes,