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...Cosby is right that education is important and kids should master English - but they should also be taught that vernacular black culture has worth. Certainly Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote such vernacular classics as Their Eyes Were Watching God - understood that. "Zora chose to write in dialect because she thought the language of ordinary, rural, self-educated black folk was beautiful," Valerie Boyd, author of the Hurston biography Wrapped in Rainbows told me. "She thought this language - the language of her youth, her primary language as a storyteller - was poetic and rich and full of vivid imagery and worthy...
...prison-abuse scandal, the concern emerges again. "Now we wonder what people back home think of us," a young officer in Karbala told the New York Times last week. "Will it be like Vietnam, where everyone who's fought there is labeled a baby killer?" If nothing else, Vietnam taught us the price of fighting wars whose original noble purpose itself becomes a casualty...
...like to be in touch with students,” said Oliver, who taught English at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School for years...
...Ward’s case, the process was smoothed by relationships with faculty members. Ward’s adviser taught a seminar she took, and she works in the lab of her reader, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji...
...Antonio Copete, a teaching fellow in Physics 15b, “Introductory Electromagnetism,” which is co-taught by Georgi, commended the SAC’s decision...