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November 8, 2007
Alexander Kushner was born the same year I was, 1936. People born that year are special in a unique way: less of us were born in to the crumbling world of 1936 than in many, many years before and in any year since. We are few. Meet Alexander here in a website from his Saint Petersburg Russia homeland. The site has several interesting sections about the famed city, with the text in Russian or English. Alexander has a page with one of his poems. My first political memory is Pearl Harbor on the radio in 1941. What could his be? Maybe he was taken, as many children were in World War II, to a safe refuge for the duration. Perhaps he saw war which took, as innocents, many born in our year and we became even fewer. Wherever he spent the decades we have shared, his poet’s soul did not lose its droll wink. Most babies of ‘36 I have known are hearty characters.
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November 8, 2007
Data building better teachers Districts use new methods to learn what works best for kidsBy AMY HETZNER
ahetzner@journalsentinel.comPosted: Nov. 7, 2007
The middle school teacher came into the weekly meeting with her colleagues at Lisbon's Richmond School with a problem: a shy student who has been identified as gifted but avoids writing and doing homework.
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November 8, 2007
Data building better teachers Districts use new methods to learn what works best for kidsBy AMY HETZNER
ahetzner@journalsentinel.comPosted: Nov. 7, 2007
The middle school teacher came into the weekly meeting with her colleagues at Lisbon's Richmond School with a problem: a shy student who has been identified as gifted but avoids writing and doing homework.
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November 8, 2007
School tax increases vary Many officials say state aid lower than expectedBy AMY HETZNER
ahetzner@journalsentinel.comPosted: Nov. 7, 2007
School property taxes will rise in Waukesha County by as much as 14% for the residents of one district and as little as 1% for those in another, under levies approved by school boards over the last two weeks.
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November 8, 2007
School tax increases vary Many officials say state aid lower than expectedBy AMY HETZNER
ahetzner@journalsentinel.comPosted: Nov. 7, 2007
School property taxes will rise in Waukesha County by as much as 14% for the residents of one district and as little as 1% for those in another, under levies approved by school boards over the last two weeks.
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November 8, 2007
UWM plays host to youth session Conference on education tackles hot-button issuesBy DANI McCLAIN
dmcclain@journalsentinel.comPosted: Nov. 7, 2007
Youth perspectives should drive research of hot-button issues such as high-stakes testing, school desegregation and dropout rates, according to a City University of New York education professor who will visit the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Thursday.
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November 8, 2007
West Bend rejects school referendum It would have been state's largestBy DON BEHM
dbehm@journalsentinel.comPosted: Nov. 6, 2007
West Bend - Voters in the West Bend School District rejected a $119.3 million school building referendum by a 62.6% to 37.4% margin in Tuesday's special election.
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