Laurel Zuckerman's Paris Weblog

On filming the Alzheimer's documentary: I REMEMBER BETTER WHEN I PAINT narrated by Olivia DE HAVILLAND

 

   

 Writer, co-producer, daughter  Berna Huebner talks with us about her remarkable film

 I REMEMBER BETTER WHEN I PAINT, 

which documents how art helped her mother in the struggle to live with Alzheimer's.

Absent teachers hurt learning in France

Teachers in France miss twice as many days of work as workers in the private sector.

As if that weren't bad enough, a recent confidential report commissioned by former Education Ministry Xavier Darcos revealed that substitute teachers registered even higher levels of absenteeism than the people they were meant to replace. 17.4 days a year!!

As a result, 10,000 classes currently have no teacher at all.

Christopher Vanier on Caribbean Chemistry: Tales from St Kitts

authors on authors

 

  This month Laurel Zuckerman talks with Christopher Vanier about his memoir Caribbean Chemistry: Tales from St Kitts

 

 

LZ: When you began work on your memoir, did you intend to write about social issues?