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Prodi, who taught Economics 2364, a course on Italian economic development, in 1974 under the Lauro de Bosis lectureship, captured the election as his center-left party took control of Italy’s two parliamentary houses—the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate...
Starting in the fall of 2007, two history tutorials now partly taught by graduate students will be replaced by reading and research seminars led by professors, Gordon said...
...Islamic values, among other failings. Later, her view of school soured as she read the works of the American John Taylor Gatto, a former prizewinning teacher who lectures on what he calls the "tyranny of compulsory schooling." Gatto portrays schooling as an instrument of social engineering where children are taught to know their place. Flint at first doubted her ability to teach Aleah, now 15, and Tahirrah, 13. Today, she and the girls say the arrangement has worked fine. "I've become really anti-school," Flint says. "I just don't believe it suits the majority of students...
...Once upon a time, homeschooling ruled. In colonial Australia, education occurred in the family home or in dame schools, where a benevolent woman taught several children for a few hours a day in her home. In 1880, when less than a third of New South Wales children received schooling, the state's Premier, Henry Parkes, pushed through the Public Instruction Act, establishing free, secular and compulsory education. School has been seen as the place for kids to learn ever since. But homeschoolers are now lobbing water bombs at that status...
...Other misgivings about homeschooling are as hard to shake. The Australian Christian Academy recommends a curriculum called Accelerated Christian Education, in which creationism is taught alongside evolution as science. Promotional material for the Muslim Education Network of Australia includes the line, "By ensuring the quality of our children's education we may be able to help save our children and ourselves from the hellfire." In her western Sydney home, Mujahidah Flint explains how important it is not to believe everything you read. Later, discussing 9/11, she and her daughters mention some material they've seen on the Internet: did their...