#165, Gap

A report released Monday by the Pew Research Center revealed that a growing number of American fifth-graders are opting to take a gap year to unwind from the stresses of elementary education

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#80, Eddie

This week we will finish reading Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

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#119, Things

Have you ever felt guilty throwing something away?

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#150, Fifth

On Tuesday, February came to a close as did fifth grade for most of you.

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#164, Ethnicity

The past two weeks in class, you read stories that revolved around characters who struggled with their identity.

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#116, Six

We will read millions of words in our lifetime, but only a small fraction of them stay with us.

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#109, Misread

I grew up in a suburb of New York, in a neighborhood that was racially homogeneous.

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#163, Initiate

Welcome 2017 Cohort!

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#162, 😂

One of the unique characteristics of PEAI is that classes stay together for a year.

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