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Harvard Crimson – The bittersweet consolation of outgrowing your favorite children s books is the chance to revisit them as adults with keener eyes. One of my own pet series of grade-school readers featured Amelia Bedelia, a bonneted and primly smocked English maid

Stroebel named Da Vinci’s new head of school
Courier News – Stroebel is head of middle school at Sycamore School in Indianapolis, Ind., a pre-K through eighth-grade school for academically gifted and talented students. He will succeed Michael Schuler, who is serving as Da Vinci’s interim head of school for

Mississippi majesty
1960 Sun – That question was not a grade school hypothetical but a reality for Ken and Tina Murphy the day before Hurricane Katrina was to strike their Gulf Coast home. Ken Murphy made it out with a partial stack of photographs he had been working on for five

Billy Strayhorn’s lush life
Louisville Courier-Journal – He began playing piano while in grade school and by high school was well known for his skills. Within a year of graduating high school, he had written a successful musical that toured throughout Pennsylvania. He wrote several classical pieces while

School tries to avoid shadow of FCAT grade
ThatsRacin.com – School tries to avoid shadow of FCAT gradeI may stand for incomplete, but at Lauderdale Manors Elementary, it means war. After two years of getting Fs from the state based on students’ FCAT scores and cutting all extracurricular activities to