Today, we submitted our proposal for the New Bedford High School Leadership Academy to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Begun as a pilot project for our school’s restructuring efforts, the new school-within-a-school will be developed through out the 2009-2010 school year. It’s projected opening is September 2010. This mandate from the Governor’s Executive [...]
Materials on the Economic Crisis
Because there was a great deal of web research done over the last couple of nights, I wanted to post some of the links that I found concerning the one year anniversary of the housing, bank and credit crisis. Here it goes: 1) Inside the Meltdown (Frontline/PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/ This documentary really explains how the crisis [...]
Reading 3 Crisis with England
Was there a way that Great Britain could have kept the colonies as part of their empire without revolution? Was there a middle ground, or was this merely an exercise between political radicalism on one side and monarchical stubbornness on the other? Your text begins with sympathy for King George III. Towards the end of [...]