Category: Writing
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News — Spring 2015
National French Teachers Examination Congratulations to Mrs. Mary Catherine Lavissière’s students Katie Cruse, Alana Ross, Micah Wittenberg, and Moriah Wittenberg! These four Scholars Online students placed with honors in the National French Test Le Grand Concours 2015. The test is offered annually by the American Association of Teachers of French to identify and recognize students…
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Autonomy of Means revisited: the Internet
Last May I wrote a piece for this blog entitled “Autonomy of Means and Education”. The choice of phrasing was drawn from Charles WIlliams, “Bors to Elayne, on the King’s Coins”. I’ve recently had reason to revisit the question again, from a different direction. I’ve just finished reading Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet…
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Not the Blog Entry I Had Planned
The phrase “Continuing in the Word” has taken on a new aspect in the last two weeks. As many of you already know, our writing instructor, Jill Byington, lost her battle with breast cancer on December 8, 2010. Her students and their parents had a chance to work with Jill and understand what her loss…