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...began their musical career by playing for special-education classes and later expanded their audience to include kids without learning disabilities or physical handicaps. "We started as run-of-the-mill teacher's aides," says Scelsa. "We still think of ourselves that way, except now we have a bigger classroom...
...nation that are certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), flight lessons cost from $180 an hour if you have your own balloon to $310 an hour if you don't. FAA requirements for a private pilot's license are 10 hours of flight instruction, 20 hours of classroom training and passing grades on written, oral and flight tests...
...from an 11-year-old with a chalk-filled eraser in his hand). I’m struck daily by the difficulties of teaching, of disciplining students, of being white in a mostly minority group. But seeing what school is like with girls and boys in the same classroom makes me glad that I didn’t experience it until college...
...While classroom dynamics are difficult, I feel even more sorry for both sexes outside the classroom, where middle school consciousness of gender looms over my students more than anything, except maybe the MCAS. Today at lunch, my table of girls decided they weren’t going to eat lunch for fear they might gain weight. While these 11-year-old girls agonize over every sandwich, their male counterparts are showing off their muscles and manhandling smaller boys to flaunt their strength. One of my students doesn’t understand that sports aren’t everything?...
...white board of a Science Center classroom was covered not with equations, but with hand-written signs bearing neo-Leninist and anti-Israel slogans Saturday as it hosted a small gathering of local communists to listen to a speech condemning Israel’s leaders...