Boarding Schools for Girls

Larry Cohen has been a teacher, principal and school social worker. All of those careers have required him to interact with students, and over the years, he's learned some things that he's now sharing in his book, I'm Still Trying to Figure It All Out Myself.

Cohen and his book were featured in an article by Jennifer Broadwater of the Howard County Times:

In 25 chapters, he outlines the qualities he believes are essential to leading a "healthy, safe, successful, and happy life." ...

"I just feel that kids need to be made aware of the risks. Accidents are really incidents. They can be avoidable," he said. "I don't want to be preachy, but what I hope comes through in the book is that despite all this, hey, life's OK. But we've got choices to make to keep it OK, because your life can change on a dime."

Among Cohen's chapters are those focused on family and parenting, education, open-mindedness, respect and self-respect, responsibility and following through, self-control, attitude, hope and optimism, empathy, laughter, sense of purpose, and a dozen more.

"In the end, it is the choices we make that ultimately shape our lives -- our choices in our attitude, in what we say and do, in how we act and react, in how we behave, and in how we choose to treat ourselves and others," Cohen writes in the book.

Labels: parenting, advocacy

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One of two candidates in a Dec. 1 runoff election for mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, used part of a Nov. 30 radio broadcast to promote her familiarity with  and support of  single-sex schools and other innovative educational approaches.

A Nov. 30 article by Atlanta Journal Constitution political reporter Jim Galloway included the following comments from mayoral candidate Mary Norwood:

I have been a strong advocate for charter schools. I've been a strong advocate for innovation. & I do love people being able to think outside the box and have some different rules. ... Other cities have many more charter schools than Atlanta does right now, and we have buildings that are vacant.

We need to be very thoughtful about what our resources are, and how we can best educate our children. ... I'm also a big proponent of single-sex schools. I went to a girls college for two years, and I understand the difference in single-sex education.

Labels: colleges, advocacy, single-sex education, girls school, politics

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