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Since the Reading Wars of the '90s, the U.S. has largely gone red. Remember the Reading Wars? In the '80s, educators embraced "whole language" as the key to teaching kids to love reading. Instead of using "See Dick and Jane run" primers, grade-school teachers taught reading with authentic kid lit: storybooks by respected authors, like Eric Carle (Polar Bear, Polar Bear). They encouraged 5- and 6-year-olds to write with "inventive spelling." It was fun. Teachers felt creative. The founders of whole language never intended it to displace the teaching of phonics or proper spelling, but that...
...Gardasil fends off are responsible for 70 percent of cervical cancer cases and 90 percent of genital warts infections. According to the website of Merck & Co., Inc.—Gardasil’s manufacturer—testing found the vaccine to be 100 percent effective in preventing high-grade cervical pre-cancers and non-invasive cervical cancers associated with HPV type 16 and 18 infections. But the cost of the injection series, each priced at $154 by UHS and not covered by Harvard’s student health insurance plan, may prove prohibitive for some. “Students...
...academia is not the only medium by which anti-Americanism is propagated, it is without a doubt the most pernicious. A teacher’s viewpoint can all too easily be construed as fact by a maturing student. And for those that disagree, the fear of receiving a poor grade is motivation to keep alternative viewpoints to themselves. They are left little choice but to gripe to college newspapers thousands of miles away. Stephen C. Bartenstein ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Lowell House...
...Crimson.“Arguably, [he’s] the best special teams player we’ve had here in my 13 years,” he says.Sherlock’s football career has been a long time in the making. Picking up the game in second grade, he played Pop Warner football with his older brother, who later played fullback for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Once he reached high school, Sherlock switched from trading blocks with his brother to trading them with some of Maine’s top football prospects at Maine Township South High School, where...
...produces the same “Still D.R.E.”-derived track three or four times on the album. The result—exemplified on “Let’s Ride”—is a 50 Cent-influenced song-rap. The B-grade Dre beats just ooze of lameness, and so does Game, with his mind-numbingly repetitive wannabe lyrics. Some of the more egregious fanboy examples are worth noting for their sheer insufferability. There’s the word-for-word copying of the post-track Snoop Dogg monologue from 2Pac?...