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...Election to the American Academy is the result of a highly competitive process that recognizes those who have made preeminent contributions to all scholarly fields and professions,” said President of the Academy Patricia Meyer Spacks...
...will they keep him from having sex? The images form the backbone of Worth the Wait, a sex-education curriculum taught at Seth's school, Caldwell Middle School in Caldwell, Texas, and in 31 districts across the state. Written by Dr. Patricia Sulak, an obstetrician-gynecologist and professor at Texas A&M University's College of Medicine, the lessons set forth the clinical consequences of teen sex in pictures and eye-popping statistics charting the numbers of young people infected with sexually transmitted diseases. The take-home message: abstain from intercourse or put yourself at grave medical risk...
...California isn’t the only state blessed with overzealous school officials. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is now considering a case from Governors State University in Illinois, where the dean of student affairs, Patricia Carter, cut off publication of the school paper when the editors refused to stop writing about issues like (gasp) grade inflation. This particular dean must have a warped concept of the role of the student press. She pulled the plug when the college paper started reporting real news...
...carried out on a puppy by al-Qaeda, even if people don't like seeing them [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 26]. I encourage you to expand your coverage of vivisection; there are countless animal experiments as horrific as the ones you showed. More people should know that this is going on. PATRICIA PANITZ Centerville, Mass...
That explanation is too simplistic for Patricia Gandara, a University of California at Davis professor of education and Sacramento resident. She believes that teachers and administrators stereotype students on the basis of race. There are plenty of examples--from the teacher who asked a Latino boy if his parents had jobs (his mother was a school principal) to the Mexican child in an advanced-placement class who was asked whether she was Asian (her classmates couldn't imagine that a Latina could perform so well). "The schools make assumptions along class lines about which parents care and which...