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Here’s a summer camp for brainy kids
The Wesleyan Summer Gifted Program is a two-week, residential, academic and social program for gifted children moving into grades 5-12. Students attend advanced classes in mathematics, physics,...
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Boys vs. girls
Boys only. (From the New York TImes) I write about lawsuits for a living. It sounds boring. But it’s not. Especially when I get cases like this one: A Wood County mother of triplet girls is suing the...
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The Dark Side of Homework
I spent last weekend cursing my son’s Spanish teacher. I cursed her as I stirred pot after pot of paper mache. I cursed her as I picked paper mache off clothes, my table and my cat. And most of all, I...
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The Genius of Mr. Hoff
As a fifth grader, I thought my teacher, Mr. Hoff, was a very odd man. He was balding and middle-aged, but he walked with the gait of a gawky teenager who hadn’t quite yet adjusted to his new body....
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Actually, Failure IS an Option
Two weeks ago, I sat in a parent-teacher conference feeling as though I had just swallowed a rock. Ms. James and I were going through the motions of an annual individualized education plan review. This...
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An Uneducated Comment
On Tuesday during a Washington Post event, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant suggested that mothers in the workplace started the decline in the American education system. In my well-educated opinion, I...
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Trying to Break the Dress Code
I spent the first 45 years of my life hating uniforms. I was never attracted to men who wore them, and I never wanted to wear one myself. I hated conformity to such an extent that I didn’t even like...
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Bad Form
The newer and brighter an object, the more likely we are to notice any blemish. That’s probably why I was so annoyed at having to complete two full-page school enrollment forms for each of my children....
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The Son I Don’t Know
Yesterday, my husband insisted I watch a video of a baby dancing to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies.” I had just gotten home from work and was already on my way out the door again, but Giles was persistent....
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