It is hard to believe that so many words in English are either of Latin or Greek origin. Yet those two then-dominant cultures are now not even adequately described by that stale expression, "mere shadows of their former selves ( Read more... )

Looks like we found a nice bi-lingual (English/French) school in Paris.

I was very impressed this weekend when reading on the income-based school integration in my old residency of Raleigh, NC. The bigotry of low expectations, if one has to use that vocabulary, apparently is best combatted by not isolating the disadvantaged from those that have high expectations of themselves and their children.

So, in the next ( Read more... )