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...flaunted his intelligence over the other kids." Classmate Betsy Starr Swan remembers the science fair in which her team's water-purification exhibit lost out to a Roberts-designed automatic table fork. "I don't think he ever lost a spelling bee. We'd all line up at the chalkboard, but we knew John was going to win." When he got things wrong, classmates assumed it was the teacher who had made the mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging Mr. Right | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

Earlier, Lee had toyed with careeers in education (“Because I loved writing on the chalkboard,” she says) and medicine...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Kid No More | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

...educators, parents and policymakers. "When men teach children, people think they couldn't make it in another industry," says Bryan Nelson, director of MenTeach, an advocacy group. That's changing with recruitment programs like Call Me Mister in South Carolina, which focuses on putting young black men at the chalkboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want Your Job, Lady! | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

Throughout the class, Rosenfeld does not confine herself to the podium. She paces back and forth, scribbling students’ ideas on the chalkboard...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Class and on Film, Fighting for Women | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...class, Rosenfeld has covered the chalkboard with words and phrases such as men, power, girls (circled), passive and virginal, and phrases like “modify self” and “subject to authority...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Class and on Film, Fighting for Women | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

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