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Charles Pascal was a renowned global expert on public education, notably in the field of early childhood development.Courtesy of the Family
Miss Pond would have smacked her hands together with satisfaction. She had been right about Charlie.
Charles Elliott Pascal entered Miss Pond’s third grade class at DeWitt Clinton Elementary School in Chicago with a reputation for “acting out.”
Mr. Pascal later wrote about his third-grade arrival: “I was a bored kid who had regularly been sent home for mischief.” He then encountered his new teacher. “Miss Pond learned from my love of baseball and…
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Kindergarten Mi’kmaw immersion program aims to keep the language strong in Listuguj, Que.
On a warm, clear day in February, Brenda Germain picks up a large hand drill and asks her students to gather around.
Drill in hand, she shows the children how to cut through the thick ice covering Chaleur Bay, on Quebec’s Gaspé coast.
“Pase’g admire — the ice is this thick,” her colleague and aunt, Joyce Germain, tells the students as they kneel over the hole, hoping to catch some smelt, or kaqpesaw.
The class outing is being held entirely in Mi’kmaw — a language that Brenda Germain says she “didn’t speak a word” of, just a decade earlier.
“I…