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Tag Archives: Missouri
Feb
4
2012
Fractions with Freese
Jane Glenn, CHS math teacher, taught David Freese, World Series MVP, at Lafayette High School in Wildwood, Missouri. She sat down to talk about him with Globe reporter Peter Baugh, on her experience teaching Freese. What year of high school was David Freese in when you taught him? David was my student his junior year [...]
Apr
20
2011
Returning after strong seasons, area basketball teams fail to live up to fans’ expectations
Last April I published a story about college basketball. I heavily recommend going back and reading it online, for it is very humorous to look back at it today. Last year Saint Louis University (SLU) played Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in a smaller postseason tournament final. Both were in similar situations, SLU was the youngest [...]
To some, it may have seemed a sign of the apocalypse. Clayton, the paragon of public school education, failed to meet progress benchmarks on state standardized tests for 2009-2010 and was designated as “in need of improvement.” Yet this label is no harbinger of future doom; it is partly the result of inadequacies in assessment [...]
May
31
2010
Finding a whole new world in rural Missouri
Take I-70 west to Highway 79 north for about an hour and a half and you will find yourself in the small town of Elsberry, Missouri. For some reason, my summer baseball team scheduled a tournament at the rather decrepit field on the outskirts of downtown Elsberry, though it was hardly a metropolis, and I [...]
As national champion, Duke still celebrates, locals have to be wondering if one of our teams could be the last one standing in future years. With Butler making the championship game, it really shows that a small school can beat national superpowers like Syracuse and Michigan State and have the ability to contend for the [...]
