Showing posts with label schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label schools. Show all posts
22 May 2026

Ernie Morrison’s Tutor, Miss Zenobia Frierson

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I first mentioned that Ernie Morrison had an individual tutor while he worked at the Hal Roach Studio back here . At that time, I knew tha...
11 May 2026

“The following routine hardly constitutes a ‘vacation’”

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In March 1924, for the first time in more than six years, eleven-year-old Ernie Morrison didn’t have a movie to make. He had no call time ...
31 August 2024

Integrating Our Gang’s Schools

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The Hal Roach Studio’s Our Gang series was notable from the beginning in showing black and white kids playing together on a mostly equal bas...
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16 March 2024

“Historic Children’s Voices” Coming from American Antiquarian Society

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The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester will launch a website on “Historic Children’s Voices, 1799-1899.” Its introductory page exp...
13 July 2017

What the New Spider-Man Comes Home to

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Back in 2014, it was widely reported that Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a superhero movie crossed with a 1970s political thril...
28 August 2014

Indomitable

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Last weekend the New York Times Book Review ran an interview with Malala Yousafzai, the Afghan teenager attacked by Taliban gunsels beca...
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19 August 2014

J. A. Jance and the Oz Books

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I’ve been hearing about the mystery writer J. A. Jance’s appearance at the Moravian Bookshop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, so I decided to h...
16 August 2014

What Do Those Challenges to The Giver Mean?

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Slate just ran Ben Blatt’s article with the incendiary headline “ The Giver Banned” and the more temperate subtitle “Why Do So Many Pare...
22 May 2014

Black and Blue?

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The May/June Yale magazine considers who the university’s first African-American graduate was . The usual names are Richard Henry Green, ...
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24 March 2014

A Thoroughly Modern Debate

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The theater program at my old high school has been making news—indeed, prominent news in the Boston Globe —with a production of Thoroughly...
04 March 2014

Disability Studies and the Wizard of Oz

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The Sentinel of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, reports that Joshua R. Eyler , director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice Unive...
20 January 2014

Non-Fiction over Novels in Schools?

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Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s essay “Why We Should Stop Teaching Novels to High School Students” at BookForum starts like this: It wasn’t unt...
21 December 2013

The Problem of Resentful Reading

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Fifth-grade teacher Pernille Ripp in  School Library Journal on “Why Reading Sucks: Talking honestly with kids might make them more passion...
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19 November 2013

Not in Florida Anymore

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Here’s a striking video of The Wizard of Oz , largely based on the MGM movie , from a Florida state school. The troupe is called Eyes Alive...
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03 October 2013

Daniel Pucca’s Mini, and Adolescent Memories

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Yesterday I discussed Daniel Pucca ’s mini-comic My Dutch Foreskin , focusing on the lettering. Because that’s the first thing you think of ...
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23 September 2013

Me and the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, 28-29 Sept.

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This weekend brings the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo in Cambridge’s Porter Square, a free show featuring independent and small-...
23 August 2013

Rep. Kerry Bentivolio’s Plan to Avoid Being a Laughingstock

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Rep. Kerry Bentivolio of Michigan provided this week’s example of OIP Derangement Syndrome . As quoted by Buzzfeed and elsewhere , Bentivoli...
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30 January 2013

Looking Back on Follow My Leader

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Tami Lewis Brown at From the Mixed-Up Files interviewed Candlewick editor Kaylan Adair, and one passage rang a familiar chord for me: I...
18 January 2013

The NRA’s OIP Derangement Syndrome

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This week the organization that claims to speak for America’s gun fandom, the National Rifle Association, released an online ad calling Pres...
19 December 2012

More Derangement from America’s Political Right

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Lest we think that derangement on the political right is limited to when some people think about President Obama , the National Review publ...