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...civil rights movement and his work with children as both being "demand-side driven." He said civil rights became an issue in the U.S. only once minorities demanded the country's recognition. And the problems of students' learning will not be addressed until they demand to be taught, he said...
Ryan's course, which will be taught entirely in German, will focus on the resistance efforts of young people against Nazism. Some groups that will be studied include White Rose and Edelweiss Pirates, a rowdy group with anarchist tendencies who wore the edelweiss flower as a kind of insignia on their clothing, Ryan said...
Indeed, it was a beautiful dream. A smoothly rising stock market would have given us no need to increase taxes, no reason to cut benefits; money would have simply appeared where needed to cover any shortfall. If the downturn has taught us anything, it is that wishing cannot make...
...Especially given the fact that in daring to suggest, without benefit of exhaustive research or even statistical sampling, that most of the women from my neck of the woods are frightfully unappealing, I was guilty of employing--drumroll, please--a stereotype. And as we are all taught, from our mother's teat to the nursing home feeding tube, there is nothing worse, absolutely nothing, than the use of a stereotype in print. Or anywhere else, for that matter...
...SATS may not be perfect, but colleges need something besides high school transcripts to evaluate students. Two schools at which I taught were rife with grade inflation. Now I teach in college, and after a couple of weeks it's obvious to me which students' high school grades were fudged. They usually receive poor college grades and often end up dropping out because they can't handle the work. No, the SATS aren't perfect, but to admit students solely on the basis of grades earned in secondary school would turn into an unqualified disaster. CANDACE MURDOCK Rome...