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MARGARET EDSON seems less concerned with being the next Eugene O'Neill than making sure a group of five-year-olds has a tidy work space. On learning that she had won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, Wit, the Atlanta kindergarten teacher's immediate response was to keep cleaning her classroom. Edson wrote Wit in 1991, when she was working at a bicycle shop. The unsentimental story of a woman dying of ovarian cancer wended its way through various regional theaters before ending up off-Broadway six months ago. Edson, 37, says she has no firm plans to write...
...Novel: Michael Cunningham's "The Hours." Drama: "Wit," by kindergarten teacher Margaret Edson Poetry: "Blizzard of One," by former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand History: "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898," by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (no relation) Biography: "Lindbergh," by A. Scott Berg General Nonfiction: "Annals of the Former World," by John McPhee Music: "Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion," by Melinda Wagner...
...think we're going to see the merger of some elementary schools. Our enrollment in them has steadily declined. Our kindergarten enrollment is below 500 students," she says. "We know that we've lost kids as they go up through the grades, so we need to confront the problems of can we affect enrollment, can we keep them in the system...
...display room at the Harvard University Press (HUP) in the Holyoke Center Arcade, books range from The Kindness of Children, a new book by a former kindergarten teacher, to Postal Communication in China and its Modernization, 1860-1896, an older monograph tucked in the rear corner of the room...
...lost my way for over a decade and virtually abandoned the drink. But now, with the amber, foam topped glasses at my disposal for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I live in the midst of an apple juice revival. Also, my food choices also place me squarely in the kindergarten camp. Chicken fingers on the menu? Super-duper. And I could never cope in a world without peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on those chop-suey days...