At peak magnitude, seek out the goddess of love planet in a clear blue sky in the west-southwest during daylight hours, being extremely careful to keep eyes diverted from the sun.
The Monterey School is one of three one-room schoolhouses remaining in Massachusetts: "It’s really simple. This is not a political decision, or even financial. It’s purely an educational decision."
-- Carl Stewart, chairman of the Southern Berkshire Regional School Committee, on the proposed closing of the Monterey Village School.
"The Learning Commons will engage kids in technology – appropriately – as we explore how to incorporate technology into education. At the same time, at BCD the integration of arts and humanities is at the core of what we do."
-- Paige Orloff, chair of the BCD Board of Trustees
“We take ourselves into schools because that’s where you can change the way education is delivered. You have to be in the schools to change them.”
--- Jane Burke, founder and director of Flying Cloud Insitute.
"It’s an answer to a problem that has arisen in many rural communities throughout Massachusetts and across the country: where do youth go when they have nowhere else to go?"
--- Ananda Timpane, executive director of Railroad Street Youth Project
"What is good for Williamstown, could be just as beneficial for Sheffield. It’s not about location, it’s about collaboration and process."
-- Andrea Wadsworth, Lee School Committee Chairperson.
November 16—29, 2015
Mt. Washington -- It was just as celebrity astronomy writers had described, except that I was indoors gazing out a picture window...
Fifty instruments were provided to the Hudson City School District Intermediate School (grades 3-6). Each instrument is loaned to a child until they graduate high school, at which time the instrument will be refurbished and given to a new child.
“Everybody on the spectrum has a vast beautiful world inside them — whether or not society gives them the chance to express that is the question.”
-- Steve Silberman, from his book, “Neurotribes”
