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...research out of the U.S. - where teacher dropout rates match Australia's - that has homed in on what the main stresses are. Asked to choose the biggest challenge they face, 31% of teachers cited involving parents and communicating with them as their top choice, according to the 2004 MetLife Survey of the American Teacher. Some 73% of beginning teachers said too many parents treat teachers as adversaries. Australian educators make the same observations: "I say to some of our parents," says Allen Brooke, principal of Caroline Chisholm High School in Canberra, " 'Can we please start this meeting with an acknowledgment...
...consultant, we hire one. If we need a coach to teach the latest exercise in Pilates or whatever, we hire people. We are a generation that will continue to invent. We won't just accept what's laid out ahead for us." Now that many Americans, according to a survey, think that full-fledged adulthood begins at 26, there is room for multiple midlife crises. There is the "quarter-life crisis" that hits at 25, the traditional one in your 40s and still another 20 years later. We are living too long and too well to stay settled even...
...that end, it proposed requiring three courses in three general areas: the Sciences and Technology, the Humanities and the Arts, and the Study of Societies. A student would have to take a “Harvard College Course” (HCC)—some sort of interdisciplinary survey course—in the two areas opposite his or her concentration. However, the report lacked vision and never clearly defined what an HCC would be, leaving a mish-mash of unclear goals in its wake...
...Kirby claims that he did [the survey] only to show that this was not a good idea,” Feldman said, noting that “the FAS has traditionally protected its role as being the only Ph.D. grantor in the University...
Several FAS professors, wary of breaking with this tradition, want Kirby to explain in detail the purpose of the survey...