“THE TURMOIL OF A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE” (175) What a horrible movie title!  Think about it.  I could make a bunch of bad movie jokes here, but I won’t.  This will be a brief blog post tonight.  Here’s where we’ll begin: “Groups emerged—slaves, urban laboring people, backcountry farmers, evangelicals, women—whose enunciated goals were sometimes only loosely [...]

OK, I have to apologize to all of my students first, for this late post to the text blog.  I had a meeting tonight with the Curriculum Subcommittee of the School Committee to introduce and answer questions concerning our Leadership Academy proposal.  For those of you who have not heard about this, we are planning [...]