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Finally Good News About Rochester City Schools
The Rochester (New York) City School District has had its share of bad news recently, mainly highlighting poor student performance. I won’t sugar coat the fact that Rochester has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the nation, … Continue reading
Read to your Children!
I love reading aloud to my young granddaughters. It’s an opportunity to ham things up a bit and practice my presentation skills in case I’m ever called upon to do a book reading. It’s also something a whole lot more: … Continue reading
Kids will lose more than Handwriting Skills when Cursive goes away
I am not surprised that Common Core standards consider handwriting proficiency an unnecessary component of elementary school education beyond the first grade. Keyboarding instruction takes precedence over handwriting now, but ours is a computer-driven society, is it not? I certainly … Continue reading
Microbeads — At What Cost Beauty?
An article in yesterday’s edition of The Buffalo News caught my attention. Living near the Lake Ontario shore as I have for going on 60 years, I am especially concerned about the health of the Great Lakes. You don’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged clean water, DesertGirl Media, Elizabeth Maginnis, Elizabeth Maginnis - freelance writer, environmentalism, Great Lakes, Lake Erie, Lake Erie plastic pollution, Lake Ontario, Lake Ontario plastic pollution, Microbead-Free Waters Act, microbeads, New York State Assembly, New York State Senate, plastic pollution, plastic pollution Great Lakes, plastic pollution Lake Erie, plastic pollution Lake Ontario, water pollution, water safety
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Why Contribute to Food Banks?
My husband and I contribute to a diverse group of charitable organizations, such as animal welfare groups and those that care for the homeless. From time to time we also contribute to grocery store food bank campaigns, but not too … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood hunger, DesertGirl Media, Elizabeth Maginnis, Elizabeth Maginnis - freelance writer, food bank contributions, food banks, food deserts, Foodlink, Foodlink Rochester NY, hunger, hunger college students, Rochester New York food deserts, Rochester NY food deserts
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Spring is in the Air. Really.
The temperature hovered around zero this morning. Cold air seared at my lungs when I opened the door to admit my daughter and granddaughter just before dawn. But you know what? The other day I heard birds. Birds! And they … Continue reading
Reacquainting Myself with an Old Friend
I took violin lessons at the Eastman School of Music Community Music School in the late 1990s. I still have my violin but laid it aside for several years when life interfered with my musical pursuits. Until this past fall, … Continue reading
Winter Has Its Subtle Graces
The view outside my window this morning has a very New York feel to it. Even though we don’t live in a neighborhood of brownstones, I can imagine I do, looking out at the snow-covered trees and yards dominated by … Continue reading
Childhood Poverty & Hunger = Low Standardized Test Scores
To my memory, when I was in school (granted, almost 50 years ago) educators never emphasized standardized tests so much as they do now. At least at the elementary/middle school level. In high school, we had the SATs and ACTs; … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood hunger, childhood poverty, DesertGirl Media, Elizabeth Maginnis, Elizabeth Maginnis - freelance writer, Rochester City School District reading math proficiency, Rochester City School District standardized test scores, Rochester NY standardized test scores, standardized test scores Rochester NY
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New Curbside Produce Program for Rochester’s Food Deserts
The popularity of food trucks in our urban centers is no secret. Foodlink, which operates a large food bank and several food programs in Rochester, New York, has taken the food truck concept one step further with its Curbside Market … Continue reading
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Tagged access fresh produce, children nutrition, corner store food selection, Curbside Market program, DesertGirl Media, Elizabeth Maginnis, Elizabeth Maginnis - freelance writer, food deserts, food trucks, Foodlink Curbside Market, Foodlink Rochester New York, fresh produce accessibility, fresh produce inner city, Rochester New York food deserts, urban farm stands
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