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...High is decked out in the traditional pink dress and golden stole of ancient Rome. She bursts into a third-grade classroom and greets her students: "Salvete, omnes!" (Hello, everyone!) The kids respond in kind, and soon they are studying derivatives. "How many people are in a duet?" High asks. All the kids know the answer, and when she asks how they know, a boy responds, "Because duo is 'two' in Latin." High replies, "Plaudite!" and the 14 kids erupt in applause. They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral. "Latin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Case for Latin | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...think I'm very good in the performance aspect [of teaching]," he said. "I speak in a monotone, forget where I'm going [with a certain point], only look at one side of the classroom. I find my talking and teaching totally unbearable," he says...

Author: By Andrew J. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Spoonful of Humor Makes the Lesson Go Down | 12/7/2000 | See Source »

...looks very much like the wave of the future. There are still a lot of disaffected people with a lot to prove to the world. Given means, motive and opportunity, anyone can breach the digital divide. It's as easy as turning the key in that homeless shelter's classroom door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digital Divide | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...high is decked out in the traditional pink dress and golden stole of ancient Rome. She bursts into a third-grade classroom and greets her students: "Salvete, omnes!" (Hello, everyone!) The kids respond in kind, and soon they are studying derivatives. "How many people are in a duet?" High asks. All the kids know the answer, and when she asks how they know, a boy responds, "Because duo is 'two' in Latin." High replies, "Plaudite!" and the 14 kids erupt in applause. They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral. "Latin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Case for Latin | 12/2/2000 | See Source »

...1800s, their mission was clear: to teach females, who were largely excluded from higher education. And even as more institutions opened their doors to both genders, studies found that many women learned more in a female-only environment, where, among other benefits, there were no men to dominate classroom discussions. But what's to become of women's colleges now, as a new generation of female students has confidently outperformed males since elementary school and become the majority at most mainstream colleges and universities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Women Only? More Go Coed | 12/2/2000 | See Source »

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