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Making Memorial Day time to serve today’s heroes
Joe Nathan / 2011, Columns (J. Nathan) / Memorial Day, veterans /
What’s the Memorial Day weekend going to mean for your family? Perhaps you’ll consider not just the traditional TV, picnics, parades and so on. If you are interested, the Minnesota National Guard has dozens of ways to help, on a section of their website entitled, “How Can I Help?” One way to honor veterans who […]
Award winning students describe their best day in school
Joe Nathan / 2011, Columns (J. Nathan) / Kayton McKern /
Hundreds of parents, grandparents, educators and students gathered on the Minnesota State Capitol steps las week, not to protest but to praise. They were honoring about 50 students, ages 5-18, whose essays were selected as the best from more than 2,000 submitted. Asked to describe their “best day” in school, young people offered sometimes surprising, […]
Celtic Woman shows music’s message
Joe Nathan / 2011, Columns (J. Nathan) / Celtic Woman, music /
“The rowdier you are, the more fun we’ll have.” That was one of the first things that Chloë Agnew, a member of the wildly popular singing group, “Irish Woman” told Minnesotans attending their recent show. This was one of more than 60 they are doing around the US this spring. Two hours later, hundreds of […]
Commissioner Casselius has good ideas about improving evaluation of teachers
Joe Nathan / 2011, Columns (J. Nathan) / Brenda Cassellius, Education Minnesota, Evaluation, Lonnie Hartley /
In a recent meeting with the ECM Newspaper editorial board, Brenda Cassellius, Minnesota Commissioner of Education recommended major, intriguing changes in the way Minnesota teachers are evaluated. She also questioned how well principals have been trained to do this. Improving teacher assessment is part of the top seven priorities for the Commissioner and Governor Mark […]