When Bush ran for President, four years ago, he was an old-school beacon man, hostile to "nation building" and the overextension of American forces.
Their experience inspired a book, "Keeping School: Letters to Families From Principals of Two Small Schools" (Beacon Press, 2004), which they wrote with Deborah Meier.
The central thrust of the government's widely-trailed plans is that the Academies, City Technology Colleges, Specialist schools and Beacon Schools adorning the government's education policy will be joined by a new category, Foundation Schools, and the number of Academies is to rise (see article).Those more puzzled than excited by this announcement will not be alone.
Grassroots Community Challenge (sponsored by Timberland) Climate Change Schools Project The Climate Change Schools Project (CCSP), Durham, is a not-for-profit-project that puts climate change at the heart of the national curriculum and makes schools beacons of positive action in their local communities.
John and St. Joachim school in Beacon, St. Ann school in Nyack and St. Peter's school in Rosendale.
The All You Knead group, which includes Tom Williams, who markets and delivers the products, has built a reputation in the year since it started its business, which is run out of the kitchen of a former high school in Beacon.
Among the quirks: students whose top choice is a school like Beacon or Millennium could actually have increased their chances for admission to those schools by not taking the exam for specialized schools like Stuyvesant.
It's also the age at which a girl, even a girl at a competitive alternative high school like Beacon, might be just on the cusp of outgrowing her love affair with Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old performer (and star of the Disney Channel's "Hannah Montana" show) who recently posed for Vanity Fair in suggestive, if artful, photos taken by Annie Leibovitz.
I appeared with Mayor David Dinkins last week; he was the creator of the after-school programs called Beacon schools.
Google's blog post highlights a number of examples already, including how a school uses beacons to distribute class notes, how beacons were deployed at CES to replace marketing brochures, and how the Golden State Warriors pass highlight videos to fans over the air.
