Word: baldwin
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...school will be renamed in honor of Maria L. Baldwin, the first black principal in a mixed-race school in all of New England, and an educator who led the Agassiz school for 33 years beginning...
Several school committee members said they favored the change in order to commemorate Baldwin, not to dishonor Agassiz...
...contrast, Vogel said, the Baldwin name would reflect the school as it is today...
Counter added that Baldwin was worthy of commemoration in the school’s name “because she was a great Cambridge educator,” and refuted the argument some put forward that Agassiz’s racist thinking was in keeping with his times...
...that men can do whatever they want in their lives, but women have to second-guess every decision they make concerning their future? AMY BALDWIN Scottsdale, Ariz...