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...This is an experiment in using the Internet to open access to the Harvard classroom, and to promote public dialog about hard moral and political questions,” Sandel wrote...
...reach of the A.R.T.’s expansion project will even bypass the stage and the community, and extend into the classroom to reestablish closer ties to Harvard College. Paulus will co-teach a new course this fall with English professor and Shakespeare scholar Marjorie Garber. The class, “Theater, Dream, Shakespeare,” relates directly to the company’s performance season...
...Rally your friends to support a good cause. Last year bloggers competing in the online equivalent of a walkathon raised more than $270,000 for DonorsChoose.org, which funds public-school teachers' requests for classroom materials. This year's Social Media Challenge starts...
...cycle - or at least the letter from the Department of Education announcing the speech did. The missive urged principals and teachers to have their students write letters to themselves about how they could assist the President, a request that some saw as an attempt to inject politics into the classroom. Jim Greer, Florida's GOP party chairman, kicked off the controversy a week ago when he condemned the President's "use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda." (Read about some schools' opposition to Obama's speech...
That's not an objection anyone remembers Republicans making when both Bush I and Ronald Reagan delivered their direct-to-the-classroom talks in the 1980s and '90s. But if there is one conservative criticism that even liberals can relate to, it's that the speech seems part of this President's overexposure. "Every time you turn around, there he is, there he is, there he is," Dean grouses. And lately, at least, every time Obama turns around, he seems to give conservatives an opening to pounce on him. Which is why many Democrats as well as Republicans suggest...