The U.S. Department of Education sent an investigator to the Dedham public schools’ administration offices Tuesday as it scrutinizes a complaint lodged by Dedham Middle School teachers alleging that “the district denied students with disabilities a free, appropriate public education by not providing teachers trained in instructing” such students.

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I confess I am often on an unrequited quest to impress my daughters with my technical know-how, my online savvy, and my never-ending recommendations for books.

Old newspapers are fun to browse. Read the front page of one and you’ll find “Twittering” is not just a present day phenomenon.

This summer I overdosed on mysteries, one right after another. I could not stop. Obsessive compulsive disorder? The weather made me do it!

Investment is what happens behind the scenes while we aren’t looking.

The hot days of August are a perfect time to fall in love with a book. Summer days and vacations just beg for a good book and, if you are lucky, your vacation will eventually be defined by the book you were reading at the time.

“Everyone’s doing it!” I’d been told. And so, a year or so ago I decided it was time to tweet and I signed up for an account on Twitter.com.

It’s a bird … it’s a plane … No! It’s a book! And it’s on its way to your library.

A Walpole woman who teaches school in Boston has been named one of the top teachers in the country.

Weekday, a.m. Library has not opened yet.