The Boston Globe, February 27th, 2000
I n "Write, She Said" (January 9), Olga Anastasia Pelensky dramatically details the difficulties of teaching writing in the Lowell public schools, where more than 50 percent of the students learn English as a second language. There was evidence in the schools of renovations, gleaming computers, and "many moments of brilliant, conscientious, and thoughtful teaching." Even classrooms, she reports, "were generally quiet - unusual for an urban school." But the author, describing herself as new to the challenges of urban education and in conflict with administrators, appears critical, if not pessim...
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