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...Cardozo High School, where, she complains, kids walk out of classes when they get bored and certain teachers talk on their cell phones when they are supposed to be teaching. But there are exceptions, and Carter knows them when she sees them. "Some teachers find a way. Mrs. Brown, they would not dare walk out of her class. She has total control. Mrs. Lawton, nobody leaves her class. This boy whispered, and she knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhee Tackles Classroom Challenge | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

Beinart's article is extremely insightful. It never occurred to me that the liberalism of F.D.R. died in the '60s, but it makes sense that it was redefined by baby boomers and that the new definition solidified in Grant Park in 1968. Thanks for the enlightening perspective. Courtez Brown, RICHARDSON, TEXAS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...positions yesterday. While no further changes have been announced, University spokesman John D. Longbrake wrote in an e-mailed statement that “the Harvard community needs to be prepared to absorb unprecedented endowment losses and to plan for a period of greater financial constraint.” BROWN UNIVERSITY Brown has instituted a hiring pause through January of all administrative and staff positions as a result of voluntary turnover...

Author: By Michael Y. Sun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ivy League Universities Issue Statements Concerning Their Responses to the Economic Downturn | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...Gist: In the predawn hours of April 30, 1871, a group of attackers ambushed an encampment of Apaches in Aravaipa Canyon, outside the town of Tuscon. 144 people - overwhelmingly women and children - were slaughtered. This much we know at the outset of Shadows at Dawn, by Brown University historian Karl Jacoby. We also know who these attackers were, for the most part: an unlikely alliance of white settlers, Spanish-speaking landholders known as vecinos and members of an opposing tribe, the Tohono O'odham. But rather than tie these four groups' tales together into a standard history of what became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Massacre Explained | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

Concerning employment, Boston University is implementing a “hiring freeze,” Riley said, adding that the university’s current president Robert A. Brown is the first president in the university’s history to take this type of action...

Author: By Emma R. Carron, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Schools Prepare for Crisis | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

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