Betsy Newmark
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Elizabeth Ellen "Betsy" Newmark is a popular American conservative current-events weblogger who since 2002 has published Betsy's Page.
Newmark (born 1956) is a high school history and government teacher (particularly AP History and Politics and America at War) at Raleigh Charter High School in Raleigh, North Carolina and five time winner of the Time Warner Cable National Teachers Award. She has taught at multiple schools in North Carolina including; Sanderson High School, Carnage Middle School, and West Millbrook Middle School. She helps to lead Raleigh Charter High School's Quiz Bowl team which is known throughout North Carolina and the southeastern United States for its dominating performances in tournaments, winning the North Carolina Academic Team Association (NCATA) championship several years running as well as the 2006 PACE National Scholastic Championship. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from George Washington University with a double major in History and Russian. She also has a Master of Arts degree from UCLA in Slavic languages and Literature.
Newmark's blog, Betsy's Page, receives around 3,500 daily hits. Her February 2003 refutation of John Kerry's error in placing Daniel Webster on the floor of the United States Senate in 1859, after his death, was republished by Instapundit.
She writes a monthly column for the Washington Examiner.
[edit] References
- David Von Drehle. (July 17, 2005) "Fighting Words." Washington Post cover story on Newmark, Barbara O'Brien and political blogging.
- Newmark's first column at the D.C. Examiner "Too Many Commencement Addresses Deserve an F."
[edit] External links
- Newmark's weblog, Betsy's Page
- Newmark's teaching page
- Newmark's husband's page
- Newmark's daughter's page
- Raleigh Charter High School's RCHS Quiz Bowl team records
- Newmark's columns at The Examiner
