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...best resource our kids have is their school faculty. I am reminded of this fact every Monday afternoon at Math Club, held in my English classroom. The students who attend regularly don’t just come for the extra credit. They come because they love math. They come because they love hearing the teachers on my hallway debate the best way to solve an old AMC problem about the area of Farmer Bob’s land. We teachers are the Helena Aquarium...
...emphasis on the importance of quality teachers in the American countryside is not meant to be self-aggrandizing. It is meant to underscore the unique ability of motivated and intelligent classroom leaders to single-handedly transform students living among nothing but poverty...
...followed him before eventually leaving. October 107:35 p.m.—Officers responded to a report of an assault at Aldrich Hall. The reporting party stated that they approached a group of individuals to advise them that they would have to leave the classroom in which they were. An individual then pushed another to force the reporting party out of the room. Another individual arrived and tried to reinforce the message of the reporting party, but was also pushed.October 119:32 a.m.—HUPD officers observed an individual blocking the flow of traffic...
Although the perimeter is guarded by police, the facility feels like a country club or college campus. Detainees have lots of downtime and soda pop. They spend their days in vocational training, psychological counseling and classroom lectures, most of which are given by religious scholars from the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, including the center's director, Sheik Ahmed Hamid Jelan. He walks the detainees through religious texts on jihad--a theological minefield, considering that while the Saudi government forbids fighting in Iraq, it once recruited young Saudis like bin Laden to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. The basic difference, Jelan...
...performance” by monetarily rewarding students who do well on standardized tests. Despite concerns that the program undermines pure academic motives, it is a commendable initiative. Opponents argue that this program weds the cultivation of knowledge with a market-mentality not fit for the classroom. But in schools where the teachers are underpaid, the classrooms are overcrowded, and students are more focused on earning money for basic necessities than their studies, it is frivolous to cite the destruction of the culture of knowledge as a counterargument to this type of solution. In New York City last year, less than...