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On Retroactively Lowering School Grades

February 3, 2015

One day, at the New Hampshire middle school where I taught, a school administrator informed me that one of my students was going to have her previous quarter’s grades lowered to all Ds, due to excessive absences during the school year. I was stunned. We do that? We lower grades that students earned, after the fact, as a punishment/incentive to change behavior?

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Academic Peace Papers

This is my 2007 thesis for Lesley University's Masters of Education in Curriculum Design, focusing in Conflict Resolution and Peaceable Schools:
The Unlikely Peace Seeker: Adopting a Life of Nonviolence in the Context of Opposing Family Values

This is a short paper I wrote in response to the standard assignment of finding and writing about sites on the internet:
A Few of My Favorite Peace Things

This is a paper I wrote in 2003 before the advent of Obama:
Three Forms of Government: Violent, Negative Peace and Nonviolent

Here's an example of how I can take a perfectly good book & ruin it with academic gibberish:
The Secret Life of Bees: The Developmental Journey of Lily and White America

This is my 2006 report on the structural violence of institutional racism and poverty that produce an inadequate and unequal public school system in the United States. The case study is of Central High School in Providence, Rhode Island:
Central High School