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...session following the screening. “The point was that even if the relationship can be so hellish or apparently so unhealthy...it is still worthwhile for people to interact and to come out of their own shells. Because there’s always something for them to learn. It is a trip within yourself every time you are in a relationship.”Miniucchi herself has had a tumultuous relationship with Hollywood. After an embezzlement scandal killed a big-budget project, she turned back to capture her own interests through a documentary lens...
...know, to self-deceiving Zionists, all of that was a lie,” Matory said. “People produce quotations that this land [Israel] was unoccupied before they got there...some people learn this in Saturday school, and it’s a function of self-deception...
...resolve this issue and is not in line with the Olympic Spirit that separates sports from politics." But those responses came nearly two days after Spielberg announced his decision to withdraw, adding yet another news cycle to an issue Beijing clearly wanted to go away. "They need to learn to do a better job of this, there's no doubt," says David Zweig, director of the Center on China's Transnational Relations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, of how Beijing has handled the setback. "It's always funny how a country that is so sensitive...
Expert teachers are given time to serve as mentors to help beginners learn their craft. The government pays for 100 hours of professional development each year for all teachers. In addition, they have 20 hours a week to work with other teachers and visit one another's classrooms. And teachers continue to advance throughout their career. With aid from the government, teachers in Singapore can pursue three separate career ladders, which help them become curriculum specialists, mentors for other teachers or school principals. These opportunities bring recognition, extra compensation and new challenges that keep teaching exciting and allow teachers...
Most U.S. teachers, on the other hand, have no time to work with colleagues during the school day. They plan by themselves and get a few hit-and-run workshops after school, with little opportunity to share knowledge or improve their practice. In a study of mathematics teaching and learning in Japan, Taiwan and the U.S., James Stigler and Harold Stevenson noted that "Asian class lessons are so well crafted [because] there is a very systematic effort to pass on the accumulated wisdom of teaching practice to each new generation of teachers and to keep perfecting that practice by providing...