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Let Education Never End

maggiec wrote 1 month ago: “Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money–in that order: it is a process, a … more →

Tags: Education, Students, Teachers, Professors, Graduation

Bel Kaufman, An inspiring woman at 1012 comments

heidi skarie wrote 3 months ago: From time to time we are asked the question: “What if this was your last day?”  Instead I was wonder … more →

Tags: writing, Humor, Humorist, inspiring 100-year-olds, Inspiring People, Movies, Novels, up the down staircase

The Price of Excellence

Anakalian Whims wrote 3 months ago: I have a love/hate relationship with education.  Or should I say formal education. I love to read, I … more →

Tags: Reviews, Education 2, Social commentary, College, Education, Books, Reviews of Reviews, Students, Novel

100 years of Bel-itude

sofagirl wrote 8 months ago: There used to be a running joke about Playboy – that men read the magazine “for of the articles”. Th … more →

Tags: Women's Issues, aging, life & love, Positive Thinking, Featured, Life after 50, Self-confidence, humour, postaday2012

Best Movie About Teaching. Ever.3 comments

educationrealist wrote 8 months ago: Cheery news: Won’t Back Down had a hideous opening. Here’s a hint, folks: teachers are a … more →

Tags: Math, Teaching, engagement, Movies, Stand and Deliver, teaching movies, The Browning Version, up the down staircase, won't back down

Wise Women Speak16 comments

Lynne Spreen wrote 9 months ago: The discontent of youth passes when you realize that the music you are hearing is not about you, but … more →

Tags: Boomers/Aging, the power of age, Middle Age, Boomers, Midlife, aging, gini dietrich, Dr Jenn Berman, Vogue Magazine

In the Cheep Seats: Education's Losing Battle Against Business

lsurrett2 wrote 9 months ago: Education has become the whipping boy of the government and our business industry. Doubt that? Read … more →

Tags: musings, Education, teacher, Teaching, Charter Schools, schools, Teachers, Business, Money

August 2012 - Upfront: Test of Time

Easy E wrote 9 months ago: … more →

Tags: August 2012, rogue vogue, RV, Vogue, Vogue Magazine, Marion Cotillard, The Age Issue, Emily Kirkpatrick, Fashion

free at last . . . 6 comments

mulberryshoots wrote 10 months ago: When are we finally free of that period in our lives when we look back in order to look forward? I … more →

Tags: Life & spirit, Taoist, change, Ego, William James, aging, Personal Freedom

Bel Kaufman

Ian wrote 1 year ago: For Jewrnalism, 1 May 2012 Bel Kaufman is more than just another example of a writer which success d … more →

Tags: jewrnalism, interviews, New York, Sholem Aleichem, Sholom Aleichem, up the down staircase, Bestseller, Tevye, Tevye the Milkman

The Highlight Of The Day-In My Own Way # 432

Mary Elizabeth wrote 1 year ago: 101 birthday candles, to face- For Bel Kaufman, the author of “Up the Down Staircase”. … more →

Tags: The Highlight Of The Day-In My Own Way, MEinRhyme, Birthday, Mary Elizabeth Rumsey, Candles, Author, 101, up the down staircase

It's That Time of Year4 comments

chauceriangirl wrote 1 year ago: …when you might find yourself wanting to give gifts.  And what better gift, really, can there … more →

Tags: Posts by Faith, Bookish Thoughts, Brandon Mull, Jane Eyre, fablehaven, up the down staircase, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

I AM A TEACHER

atomickaleidoscope wrote 1 year ago: I am a teacher. Anonymous I was born the first moment that a question leaped from the mouth of a chi … more →

Tags: teacher, teacher, teacher, Teaching, Paradox, Ralph Waldo Emerson, leo buscaglia, marva collins, Hans Christian Anderson

I love you, Bel Kaufman

Jason Diamond wrote 1 year ago: Posted by Jason Diamond There is a slight possibility that Sholem Aleichem’s 100-year-old gran … more →

Tags: Lit., Sholem Aleichem

Шолом-Алейхем и Бел Кауфман

Everything Russian wrote 1 year ago: Бел Кауфман – знаменитому автору книги “Вверх по лестницу идущей вниз” исполнилось … more →

Tags: Poetry, Literature, Шолом-Алейхем, interview 2, Бел Кауфман, Shalom Aleichem, Андрей Загданский

"Up the Down Staircase" Author Celebrates 100th Birthday

EPL wrote 2 years ago: People of a certain age will remember when Up the Down Staircase, a novel about teaching in a large … more →

Tags: Fiction, up the down staircase, High School, Teaching

Dear Bel Kaufman,13 comments

notes to my muses wrote 2 years ago: Dear Bel Kaufman, Happy birthday! I just read The New York Times article celebrating you and your wo … more →

Tags: coming-of-age story, Jewish fiction, Immigrant Story, Humorous fiction, feminist fiction, Jewish woman writer, one hundred years young!, teacher educator, up the down staircase

Teacher, writer, joke teller Bel Kaufman turns 100

JWI wrote 2 years ago: In yesterday’s New York Times, Joseph Berger profiles Bel Kaufman – New York City teacher, granddaug … more →

Tags: inspiring Jewish women, Sholem Aleichem

Bel Kaufman3 comments

mbcoudal wrote 2 years ago: Yesterday was Bel Kaufman’s 100th birthday. I met her at the Dutch Treat Club, a luncheon club … more →

Tags: New York Story, New York City, postaday2011, National Arts Club, The Cult of Celebrity, 100 years old!, up the down staircase, Writers, Everyday Heroes


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