Grace Rubenstein

Left Out: Why Is It So Hard for Older Women to Get the HPV Vaccine?

grace — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 18:41:55 +0000

Doctors stop recommending the HPV vaccine to women once they've reached their mid-20s. But is it a good idea for older individuals who still want it?

The Have and Have-Nots of Health in Sacramento

grace — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:47:40 +0000

The visible differences between the leafy East Sacramento and gritty Oak Park neighborhoods are obvious. Beneath the surface are disparities just as stark in matters that are anything but superficial: residents' rates of death and disease.

Free Health Clinic Shows Massive Need

grace — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:14:00 +0000

More than 1,000 people waited overnight to receive free medical, dental and vision care on day one of the four-day Remote Area Medical clinic in Sacramento. Still more were turned away. The traveling clinic is funded by donations and staffed by volunteers.

How to Make the Best Mole Negro

grace — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:41:58 +0000

You won't find Soledad Ramírez Heras in any travel guidebook. She doesn't have a website, a business name, or even an email address. And the fact that this gem of Oaxacan gastronomy is a semi-secret only makes her private cooking classes more appealing.

Serious Illness Complicates Deportation Case

grace — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:10:11 +0000

The digital counter ticked down the remaining minutes of Ignacio Mesa Viera's dialysis treatment.

With More Than Yawns, Pupils Rate Teacher’s Book

grace — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:34:32 +0000

Besides finishing their assignments and playing nicely with others, the third graders in Joe Imwalle’s classroom have another important job: They are front-line editors of their teacher’s book.

In the Fruitvale Section of Oakland, Merchants Are Armed and Wary

grace — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:24:41 +0000

At Esparza’s Jewelry in the Fruitvale section of Oakland, the owner, Rodolfo Perez, works the counter with a .38-caliber revolver strapped to his belt.

Tour Draws Immigrants to Honor Their Saint

grace — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:43:31 +0000

Last Friday night, the faithful and the curious lined up for a special mass at St. Anthony Parish in Oakland. On a pedestal up front stood the object of their affection: a 4-foot-5 statue of a blue-eyed Mexican priest.

At the Curb, Wheels for Free Expression

grace — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:30:28 +0000

If the residents of the Haight, the Castro, the Mission and other San Francisco neighborhoods were given a giant public chalkboard, what would they write?

Grant Gordon knows — thanks to his 2001 Toyota Echo.

No Child Left Behind: The Good and the Bad

grace — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:27:14 +0000

Krista Sokolsky teaches third grade in San Lorenzo, CA, a lower-middle-class area near Oakland. Every morning she greets 24 little faces at Hillside Elementary, and they kick off each day with a grammar game. But lately she's wondered whether her ten years of experience in the classroom even matters.

Inside Intelligence

grace — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:00:11 +0000

Every perceptive teacher sees a diversity of strengths and weaknesses in each of her students: There is the child who loves math but has trouble playing well with classmates, the one who makes friends easily but struggles to stay focused on written tasks, and another who creates beautiful paintings but can't seem to retain much of what she's read.

Reinventing the Big Test: The Challenge of Authentic Assessment

grace — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:00:02 +0000

When I was a younger education reporter in the old mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, the big day came when the state released scores on its school accountability tests.

Grand Slam: Performance Poetry Engages Students

grace — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:33:41 +0000

Collaboration Generation: Teaching and Learning for a New Age

grace — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:00:44 +0000

Information age, rest in pieces. This is the Collaboration Age. We can all connect instantly across time zones and oceans. Previously impossible partnerships now produce startling innovations. And the four walls of your classroom no longer limit your students' reach.

Stealth Mental Health: Student Support Without the Stigma

grace — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:00:50 +0000

In southern Oregon, community specialists get to know and counsel kids through school activities.

The Apprentice: Mentoring in the Boston Teacher Residency

grace — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:00:14 +0000

Even in the best teacher-prep programs—those abundant with real-world practice—educators-in-training often learn to be generalists. They typically work in several school settings, learning to teach a range of curricula in preparation for the various assignments they may pursue.

Outside In: The Walden Project Helps Students See the Forest for the Trees

grace — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:00:30 +0000

The clouds are still thick from recent rain as nineteen students board a bus outside Vergennes Union High School (VUHS), in rural Vergennes, Vermont.

Cross Training: Arts and Academics Are Inseparable

grace — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:00:16 +0000

The arts often are sidelined these days in an educational landscape of soaring expenses and standardized exams. As school officials across the country take the red pen to their arts budgets, they generally reason, "How do we justify the time and expense of music, dance, or drawing when we have federal benchmarks to meet and little money to spend?"

The Advantage of Disadvantage: Teachers with Disabilities Are Not a Handicap

grace — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:00:13 +0000

Like most new teachers, Amanda Trei had trouble sleeping the night before her first day in the classroom. On top of the usual new-job jitters -- Would she be a good teacher? Would the kids like her? Would she find a friend among her new colleagues? -- Trei had an additional worry. She wondered how the special education students at Schwegler Elementary School, in Lawrence, Kansas, would react to her wheelchair.

Mining for Gold: Writer Samuel G. Freedman’s Education

grace — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:00:14 +0000

"Dear teachers and students, dear principals and counselors," begins a column written last August by Samuel G. Freedman, the co-writer of the On Education column for the New York Times. "As the new school year begins, let us reflect. Let us reflect on our reflections about reflecting."

Drowning Victims Remembered

grace — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:00:39 +0000

LAWRENCE-ln the chilly morning yesterday, children, teachers and families gathered quietly around the Guilmette School Peace Garden to remember what happened on another cold day two years ago.

Mourning Mom Sews Quilts for Veterans

grace — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 19:00:12 +0000

HAVERHILL- The day before he died, Barbara O'Neill's son called and told her how cold and dark it was at night in Afghanistan.

Suicide By Cop

grace — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 19:00:26 +0000

They thought they were responding to a routine noise complaint, but back on Dec. 2, 1987, five Haverhill police officers became the unfortunate and unknowing triggermen in a Methuen man's suicide.

Crossing into Danger

grace — Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:00:17 +0000

Federal regulators knew the Sutton Street rail road crossing was dangerous well before two women were killed in a train-car collision there last month.

Sadly, the Buzz is Gone

grace — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 19:00:15 +0000

Buzzy the Buzzard still grins below his black sunglasses on the wall of Buzzy's Fabulous Roast Beef, but the lights are dark and there are no loyal patrons grinning back.

Where You’d Least Expect It, Someone Who Listens

grace — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 17:00:55 +0000

Everyone who commutes to Massachusetts General Hospital on the Redline knows him. He is the elderly man with a long white beard and knitted black beanie who stands in the corner of the pedestrian overpass on week day mornings, leaning on his crutches and holding a change cup and a sign that reads, "Please - I am Not hopeless."

Market Vendors Take Stock

grace — Mon, 01 Oct 2001 19:00:57 +0000

When the pushcarts come to Haymarket, it is not quite business as usual for the owners of a string of small Middle Eastern markets and halal meat shops around the corner from Faneuil Hall.