[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I live in a female seminary. It’s an apartment building now, mostly remodeled, but I can imagine the history trapped between the brick walls. I sleep in the same rooms where some of the first young girls in our nation were allowed to educated themselves. I make coffee in the same spot where I imagine […]
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Principal of Cedar Rapids’ Washington High School resigns, effective today
Dr. Ralph Plagman, the principal of Cedar Rapids Washington for the past 35 years, has resigned his position at the school. In an email circulated to families of Washington students, Plagman says that his retirement comes at the request of the Cedar Rapids Community School District after his handling of inappropriate conduct involving a substitute […]
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Education for all: University of Iowa to offer its first-ever ‘Massive Open Online Course’
The University of Iowa unveiled plans for its first-ever Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) last week, titled “Every Atom: Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.” Free…
