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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...
...going to be offered this spring called Black Holes and the Violent Universe,” he said. “[The other course,] Planets Orbiting Other Stars, will be taught in the fall...
...alone have seen German lawyers, buoyed by anti-American sentiment, file suit against recently resigned Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for committing war crimes under international law. But from where do such sentiments arise?One reason frequently bandied about is that, in autocratic states like Saudi Arabia, students are taught to resent the United States during their formative years of schooling. And there certainly seems to be truth to this. But what about resentments emerging from Western, democratic regimes? I have long been skeptical that a virulent anti-Americanism could be bred in the classrooms of Western democracies. After...
...take Science A, and Science B?THC: Indeed. So terrible. DA: I loved mine. They were very inspiring. I felt the student body prepared me to hate the Core, but I really enjoyed it. I always thought it was a great idea, and many of the things I was taught there stayed with me, even more than many things I was focusing on at the time. THC: The Mayan myth of Genesis and their “Tree of Life” are essential to your film. How did you first come across it?DA: Well, you find those things...
...rout out Yale at its roots. It must be understood that Yale is a socially transmitted disease, and the only way to cure it is to cultivate a change in social behavior. It is disheartening and sickening that today in America some children are still being taught that going to Yale is a good thing. Decades of empirical data have revealed this idea for what it is: a damaging, destructive lie. As the enlightened, it is our sacred duty to debunk this myth wherever it occurs. Do not ignore those who spew this falsehood, but confront them with the truth?...