I am pretty sure I first met Emma through HHS Debate, before she was a member of Mock Trial or a student in my classes. I could have the timeline wrong, but for we certainly spent a lot of time together working on all things political, legal, and historical. She was a delight to work …
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HHS Debate takes on Bath, Part 2: The actual trip
I previously covered an amusing anecdote from the Bath trip, and talked about how we had to delay the trip for a year due to security concerns in another entry. But today I’m going to talk about the trip writ large. We departed on March 1, 2008 after many months of fundraising. So much fundraising …
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Cell Phones in the Classroom
If you want to light a fire under most teachers, mention student cell phones. For many, if not most teachers at the high school level, they are the bane of their existence. Hillsborough High School tried banning them a decade or so ago, then shifted to allowing cell phones being kept in lockers only. But …
Tuesday Talk… with Joshua Rosenblum
I believe Josh and I met during our sophomore year at Rutgers, although it might have been as late as junior year. We agreed (and little has changed) on about five percent of issues of political issues, but shared a love of debating and exploring political philosophy, along with lots of shared cultural affinities. Josh …
January Madness: The Presidential Playoffs
Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Politics is ostensibly a political science class and not a history class, but history often comes into the picture when we examine the major institutions of the country. To understand, for example, how the presidency has gotten to be the way it is (far afield from the role outlined in …
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Hiding in the Foreground, Part 2: The Writing Partnership
In previous entries I wrote about composing my first song and about how that led to the creation of my first album. In that latter entry, I covered most of the songs on the first half of the album. In this blog entry, I’m going to talk about the second half, all songs co-written with …
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The Year in Review (January 1 to December 31)
The title is a joke about how I usually do the week in review on Saturdays, but since this was a week off from school, I thought that would be kind of boring. Except for the day I drove 14 hours in the car, I did something related to education every day, because it’s who …
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Elective Proposal: Race in the United States
After spending the last several summers focusing on slavery and Reconstruction and a winter break in Sierra Leone learning about the slave trade, I finally decided to pull the trigger on proposing a new elective. The last bit of inspiration came in New Haven, Connecticut as I continued working with my peers in the Trans-Atlantic …
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HHS Debate Takes On Bath, Part 1: Late for the Shuttle Bus
In 2003, HHS Debate traveled to London and Bath, England to take part in the Bath Schools International Model United Nations. It was a great trip with a wonderful group of students. I wrote a bit about the lead-up to this trip here, and will share my recollections of the conference and tourism in another …
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If this is a gift, I would hate to see your version of a lump of coal
After a year and a half of negotiations, the Hillsborough Board of Education and Hillsborough Education Association reached a tentative agreement on the remaining items that divided them last Thursday night. There are still several hurdles to overcome. The creation of salary guides is always problematic and based on history can take months to iron …
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Fenster on Education 