Elizabeth Spiegel's blog

The estate of the late Fred Snitzer has donated some very old and valuable books to IS 318, and we are looking to sell them. Titles inclu...

I played two rated games today to warm up for next weekend. My team is USATE is Matan Prilleltensky, Matheu Jefferson, Charley McMillan, and...

Our host, Jane Street CEO Sandor Lehoczky , explains the basics of finance to IS 318 chess team students. We watch traders in ...

two kids playing blitz in my room: Daniel: Can you turn your eyelids inside out? Anthony: Why would I want to do something that dumb? Dan...

Mongoose Press sends me their books, very kindly, sometimes. Most of the time I look at them and think they are ok but ignore them, becau...

Eldridge  Chris Jayvon Azeez Isaac Eldridge I have a crazy parent story for you. Lennin (1200) comes back af...

Brooklyn Castle superstar Rochelle Ballantyne wins a full scholarship to Stanford!!!

I took today off to recover from the weekend. We didn't have a team room (CIS used to get it for us) so I analyzed in my pretty small (e...

I talked to a lot of media people in the last month, and it was fun, but I'm happy life is getting back to normal.  The truth is I mostl...

Aaron Idemudia Aaron Idemudia and his twin brother Sean are extremely talented new 6th graders. We have been working on resisting the ur...