A year with three different first day of school signs coming to end
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Fifth-grade students wear masks while seated socially distanced in their desks at Garfield Elementary School in Oakland on April 19, the first day of in-person learning.Jessica Christian/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Second-graders wearing masks play during recess April 19 at Oakland’s Garfield Elementary School.Jessica Christian/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Not long ago, I volunteered for yard duty at Didi and Gege’s elementary school. In our district, parents pitch in during recess and lunch. Although monitoring students isn’t a typical volunteer gig, this year has been anything but typical.
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10 New Books We Recommend This Week
May 6, 2021
Our recommended books this week offer revisionist views of a couple of historical figures: In “The Invention of Miracles,” her biography of the often-lionized Alexander Graham Bell, the writer Katie Booth takes a dim view of his efforts to eradicate deafness and its culture, while in “The Bomber Mafia,” Malcolm Gladwell looks favorably on the much-criticized Gen. Curtis LeMay and his ruthless Japanese bombing campaign late in World War II. We also like a posthumous essay collection from the beloved travel writer Jan Morris and a new graphic memoir from the brilliant Alison Bechdel that explores her obsession with physical fitness, along with a lot of fiction: story collections by John Lanchester and Te-Ping Chen, and new novels from Rachel Cusk, Helen Oyeyemi, Ben Hopkins and J. Robert Lennon.