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...speakers taught students about the history of the Civil Rights movement, local and national organizing strategies and about modern mass movements...
...selling points of the school at which I taught for three years (and attended from seventh through twelfth grade) is that its students don't just learn academic skills, they learn character. The goal of its 75 year-old Honor Code, which allows students to take exams unproctored or even at home, is to teach students to do what is right even when it is most difficult...
...More important, there's no evidence the federal government, regardless of how much it spends, can make sure these traits actually get taught (and learned). Thousands of schools have already introduced character education programs, in many different forms and with varying results. The most popular program, which now reaches more than one million students, is Character Counts! It avoids the kind of pedantic (and typically useless) lectures on virtue that many critics fear will be encouraged by the Bush grants. Schools that use Character Counts! integrate values-teaching throughout the curriculum: each month is devoted to one character trait, which...
...patient is still alive in a month, Dr. Gray may consider himself to have helped. If the patient is still alive in two months, walking around and changing his battery every two hours, he will have met Dr. Lederman's standard and by then will probably have taught his doctors how to bass fish by then...
...already had part of the answer. Patient study had revealed that some orangutans were avid tool users, for example employing short sticks to shave stinging hairs from the fat-loaded fruit of the neesia tree. This was a skill that seemed taught by one generation to the next, not inherited. In other words, the orangutans had culture, previously the single greatest distinguishing mark of humanity...