Greenfield Recorder
Paraeducators and the ways they make public education possible
In the early 1970s I applied to be an instructional assistant at a residential school for emotionally disturbed children. I had recently graduated from college with a degree in sociology; I had no…
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3mBernard J. Monkiewicz Sr.
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3mMyron Charles Furtado
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My Turn: The vanishing security of old age
My wife’s uncles and aunts all lived very comfortable lives. They had nice homes on quiet streets and did the usual modest things, visiting locally and not traveling much, during their retirement years. The uncles had all been World War II vets. They came home from the war and went back to work in the […]
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My Turn: How to hike, how to live
Placerville, also known as Hangtown for its public executions during the Gold Rush of the 1800s, was the nearest town to my great-grandfather’s family farm in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Charles Henry Rieber (1866-1948) was the last of five children and grew up balancing hard work, schooling that required miles […]