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This is not meant as a condemnation of maximizing fun and living casually. I am committed to wearing runner-soled shoes, watching The Simpsons and making back-of-the-classroom wisecracks on Twitter. But the rampant juvenillization of national life does echo and reinforce unfortunate habits of mind. What do the naughtiest children do? They scream and cry and tell outrageous fibs, like Glenn Beck...
Garcia, who has been teaching for 32 years, says her children consider cursive a "rite of passage" and are just as excited to learn it as ever. But once they leave her classroom, it's a different story. She doesn't know any teachers in the upper grades who address the issue of handwriting, and she frequently sees her former students reverting to old habits. "They go back to sloppy letters and squished words," she says. "Handwriting is becoming a lost...
...son’s college tuition, that child must choose a path that ensures a secure and set future—not “the arts” And there is little by way of encouraging participation in extracurriculars. Time is better spent in the classroom or preparing for tests...
...alliance, which is managing the conflict. Rasmussen, 56, spent eight years in Copenhagen's top office, most notably shepherding Denmark through the Muslim cartoon uproar of 2005 - which he called the nation's greatest crisis since World War II. An avid Facebook user, Rasmussen recently visited a special-needs classroom following an online request from the teacher, a Facebook friend. To be successful in Brussels, he'll need the support of plenty of real-world allies, as well. (Read: "Why Pakistan Balks at the U.S. Afghanistan Offensive...
...many years, McCourt tried and failed to write about his childhood. The family talent for storytelling kept him alive in the classroom, but he couldn't get the words down on paper. He kept company in bars with writers like Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin, but his own voice stubbornly refused to emerge. The psychological weight of his past may have weighed him down. It also took a toll on his personal life; first one, then a second marriage ended in divorce. (He was married a third time, happily and permanently, in 1994.) He left the Catholic Church...