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...literacy programs for third-graders. What a novel idea! I've heard some of those early-literacy programs referred to as first and second grade. Too many parents feel that the early years are not important, that the child can "make it up later." How do I know? I taught third grade! Put the responsibility where it belongs: on Ma and Pa. I once made a father do detention to make up for the school his son missed. He did it! The principal nearly had a stroke, but the child's attendance improved remarkably. You should have enumerated "5 Things...
...this is not new. For every Franklin or Jefferson cited by Bollard, there were a dozen men like Dan Sickles, who seduced the Queen of Spain, or Robert Schenck, who as Minister to the Court of St. James taught the British to play draw poker and then cheated them out of millions. All were political figures, not professional diplomats. The U.S. did not have a professional diplomatic corps until the early 20th century. Many Americans remain ambivalent about it, in contrast to other professions like the military. It is hard to imagine the American people tolerating a high number...
...outweighed by good decisions on the other side. I came from a university where tenure was much easier, where there weren’t checks like at Harvard, and I don’t think that university did as well in building faculty,” says Rosenblum, who taught at Brown from 1980 to 2001.While Gordon acknowledges that “Harvard is not quite as able to be as quick as other schools that have a slightly more streamlined and slightly less careful process,” he says it has sped up in the past decade...
After earning his PhD from the University of California at San Diego, Godfrey-Smith taught for 12 years at Stanford University. He was a visiting professor at Harvard in 2000, and for the last two years, he worked part-time for both the Australian National University and Harvard...
...News bio notes that he plays flute, alto flute, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax and guitar. He has worked as an advocate for the mentally ill and the developmentally disabled in North Carolina, taught physics and East African geography in Kenya, and has been a substitute teacher in subjects ranging from calculus to seventh-grade...