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South Philly Review Local student stars in math competition South Philly resident Owen Moss helped his school reach the final in an international math competition last month. On April 5, the Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School on Spring Garden Street was a finalist in the MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge, a unique competition that drew more than 2,400 11th- and 12th-graders in the U.S. and sixth form students in the U.K. this year. Moss and his four Masterman teammates, Tobias Beidler-Shenk, Tanay Bennur, Hayden Gold and Ethan Soloway, underwent their final evaluat...

Book Review of "Enlightenment and Ecology: The Legacy of Murray Bookchin in the 21st Century" Written by Elvira Wepfer Murray Bookchin’s (1921-2006) anti-capitalist thinking combined community, direct democracy and ecology into a radical political theory he called social ecology. Throughout the 20th century it stood alongside growing arguments for eco-social change and influenced leftist discourses on citizenship, domination and freedom. In the new millennium, it has formed the basis of the Kurdish feminist-ecological revolution in Rojava and thus been implemented for the first time in prac...

Stockton Unified interim Superintendent Brian Biedermann announces resignation The Record STOCKTON — Brian Biedermann, interim superintendent of the Stockton Unified School District, announced his resignation Tuesday in a letter posted on the district's website and social media. "It is with a heavy heart that I announce my thirty-day notice to resign as Interim Superintendent," Biedermann said. "This was no easy decision, but due to recent health complications, I must step down to tend to my own personal health." Biedermann, who previously served as director of educational services for Sto...

On her 101st day in third grade, 8-year-old Valeria Morales settled beside her teacher for a reading assessment. Her brown hair in a ponytail, Valeria softly read aloud from a list of words that children two years younger would be expected to know. Although she had no trouble recognizing many of the first-grade level words, including "run," "map” and “sing,” she stumbled over others. “Oh, no,” she sighed. "It's OK," instructional coach Christine Linden assured her, keeping track of words she missed. "This just helps me to know what I need to teach you." It was early F...

A Grand Island Public Schools elementary principal has been recognized as Nebraska’s outstanding new principal of the year. Jefferson Elementary Principal Sheree Stockwell was honored Dec. 10 with the Nebraska Association of Elementary School Principals’ Outstanding New Principal of the Year Award at the Nebraska Council of School Administrators’ State Principals Conference, which took place virtually this year due to COVID-19. Stockwell said she was told around Thanksgiving that she had received the award, but had to keep it a secret until after the conference. “I couldn�...