If you want to see, you need to sit still. Still enough, for long enough, to be part of what is. Be still and know. You will know what it means when you get there--but first you have to sit. Still. This is my Auntie Beth's pond, not mine.*** I've gotten pretty good at sitting still on these cataract days, so humid even thoughts have a hazy ...

''That broad [public trust] doctrine derives from the ancient principle of English law that land covered by tidal waters belonged to the sovereign, but for the common use of all the people. Such lands passed to the respective states as a result of the American Revolution...'' Justice Frederick W. Hall, NJ Supreme Court I clam on a tidal flat ...

Students learn at different levels. It doesn’t matter if you are a child or an adult. Some students in one school year may gain two grades of Math skills while they may need two years to earn one year of English skills. I think it makes more sense to allow students to learn at their own pace. Certainly, they need to meet specific ...

I read an interesting article in Fast Company, a business magazine. It discussed corporate involvement in public schools. It featured a new high school in West Philadelphia, Philadelphia's School of the Future. Click here to read the complete article.This is an interesting and certainly a controversial concept. Corporations argue that students ...