Word: teacher
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...recent decision to deny tenure to Professor Beatrice Hanssen (News, May 24) is shocking. Given Hanssen's role as an eminent scholar, teacher, administrator and member of the Harvard community, her denial of tenure is hard to comprehend. She is an established and internationally recognized critic and scholar...
...recent decision to deny tenure to Professor Beatrice Hanssen (News, May 24) is shocking. Given Hanssen's role as an eminent scholar, teacher, administrator and member of the Harvard community, her denial of tenure is hard to comprehend. She is an established and internationally recognized critic and scholar...
Children need to appreciate the difference between sexual harassment and normal schoolyard taunting, teasing and flirting. "Harassment is not Harry saying to Sally, 'You look hot today.' Kids take that as a compliment," says Nan Stein, a former middle school teacher and currently director of the Project on Bullying and Sexual Harassment in Schools at Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. "Harassment is if he flips up her skirt or tries to pull down her pants. And boys can also be victims of harassment or sexual bullying." The most serious cases could involve sexual touching, bumping or grabbing...
Make sure your daughter knows that if another child does or says something that makes her feel threatened, she should tell a parent or teacher right away. Sometimes kids can't articulate why they are scared, but fear has a way of settling in a child's gut, and that is the feeling she should heed and tell someone about...
...look at the precious microculture of our own household and study its condition. But how many of us actually did anything differently? Spent more time with our children, or someone else's? Came home a little earlier? Skipped a meeting? Turned off the TV? Called other parents, called a teacher, volunteered to help with some after-school activity--Girl Scouts, theater, baseball--that will happen only if enough grownups show...