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...world would probably be an even better fix. But he has a personal reason to take the issues seriously. Two years ago, he was in his apartment in Blacksburg, Virginia, listening to sirens sounding across the campus outside his window. A half-dozen friends of his were in the classroom where Cho Seung-Hui opened fire, and the names of some of the dead belong to people he knew. "The idealist in me is shocked and angry," Woods says, that restrictions on guns have eased rather than tightened in the wake of tragedies like the one at Virginia Tech...
...feel the pressure of a real playwright, because if your work stinks it could be really embarrassing. It forces you to think of it in a realistic environment.”Like Urban, other faculty members at the Extension School bring their own professional, real-life experience to the classroom. Christopher S. Mooney, who teaches a course on suspense fiction, is a published author of suspense novels. Robin Lippincott, who leads a section of Intermediate Fiction Writing, has written three novels and a collection of short stories. Lippincott believes that to become a good fiction writer, one must think like...
...eyes had never seen such magnificence before. It was the dawn of time. The dawn of my life. Or at least it felt like it. I began to see things in a different way. It was as if the universe shrank down into the size of a small classroom. My new universe included me and Katie, and my universe had no sense of time or place or anything like that. No longer was I in school in the middle of no where, South Dakota.... I…was somewhere else. The fact that the teacher was talking and I wasn?...
...Teachers can't believe it. We Are worried about the future. Alan Bersin is a dictator who never took the opinion of the classroom teacher." - Barbara Scott, elementary school teacher, upon the announcement that Bersin would be state education secretary, (San Diego Union-Tribune, April...
...national system of standards and testing would also permit the gathering of consistent data, down to the classroom level, so that we could finally get more rigorous evidence to answer some basic questions: Do smaller classrooms make a big difference, and in which situations? How beneficial is it to have a longer school day or year? It would also help resolve disputes about different teaching methods, like whether phonics or a whole-language approach to reading works best. In addition, we could more easily spot ineffective teachers, and they could be weeded out or offered training resources that have proved...