Archive for the ‘Eve Pearlman’
Eve Pearlman: Swim together, right now
As you may have heard, come next fall there will be a new charter school opening its doors in Alameda.
The Academy of Alameda Middle School will almost certainly be housed in the current site of Chipman. The West End middle school is right now in its fourth year of ‘program improvement,’ a designation given to [...]
Eve Pearlman: A field of their own
For many children with disabilities, that 8 x 11 flyer that comes home from school in their backpack inviting them to Alameda Little League tryouts is a nonstarter. You can’t play baseball in a wheelchair! With a walker! If you can’t swing a bat!
Right?
But then there’s Miracle League baseball, a league of its own with [...]
Eve Pearlman: Turn around, put your feet on the ground
You probably haven’t watched Footloose lately. If ever. It’s a 1984 movie staring Kevin Bacon as a high school senior who moves from big-city Chicago to fictional Beaumont (loosely based on real-life small-town Elmore, Oklahoma). In Beaumont, Bacon’s character, Ren, finds himself in a place where dancing – as well as rock and roll itself [...]
Eve Pearlman: Building strength with Amy Fasso
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a recent Saturday morning and Amy Fasso lies prone on a blue exercise mat on the tile floor of the Ruby Bridges Community Center. The dozen or so of us who have enrolled in her circuit training class through the Alameda Recreation and Park Department stand about as we prepare to [...]
Eve Pearlman: A question, Alamedan to Alamedan
The Internet is a good place to seek guidance and wisdom. You can find out all manner of things – how to best cultivate peas, for example — or opinions on the absorbency of diapers, Huggies v. Pampers.
So here’s today’s question: Say – hypothetically, of course – you or someone you know has a neighbor [...]
Eve Pearlman: Class size reduction on the chopping block
The number of students in most public school classrooms in California (at least in kindergarten through third grade) has been locked in at a maximum of 20 children per class since 1996, when Gov. Pete Wilson launched the popular ‘class size reduction’ program. (Though even with this program, California has ranked 48th among states in [...]
Haiti: No justification in our age
For many Alamedans, it has been days of watching the news come in from Haiti. That first night there was almost nothing – a city crumbled onto itself without electricity or communications. Then there were days of stories each more horrible than the next, smashed buildings, smashed people, civil disorder, the struggle to provide water [...]
Eve Pearlman: How do you solve a problem like the Point?
Second of two parts (Part one)
I have been thinking about Measure B and pondering what to do in the voting booth. As best I understand it, we’re being asked to make three decisions.
1. To modify Measure A for the land at Alameda Point only. (Remember that A is an amendment to the city’s charter, [...]
Eve Pearlman: How do you solve a problem like the Point?
Updated 1:33 p.m. Friday, January 8
First of two parts (Part two)
On February 2nd – or earlier, for absentee voters – Alamedans will be asked to vote on Measure B, the 280+ page plan for the development of Alameda Point.
If you’ve received pro-B fliers, you’ve been told that the Point will be a happy, happy place [...]
Eve Pearlman: On Holiday
Getting into the holiday spirit, here are the top ten reasons I love living in Alameda.
10. If you drive above the speed limit, you can count on being stopped by the police. If you drive without your seat belt, you can count on being stopped by the police. When you are stopped by the [...]
Eve Pearlman: Public schools and diversity
As a Jewish person, or a person of Jewish ancestry, or a non-religious, Jewish-identified person – or however you like to describe me (and you would think I would have adopted an appropriate phrase after 39 years of life, but I have not) – I am not always, nor is my family’s life always, in [...]
