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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
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
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
Microbeads — At What Cost Beauty?
An article in yesterday’s edition of The Buffalo News caught my attention. Living near the Lake Ontario shore
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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, … we also contribute to grocery store food bank campaigns
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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.
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
Winter Has Its Subtle Graces
The view outside my window this morning has a very New York feel to it.
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.
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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
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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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