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...crowd is older and more professional than coverage of the blogosphere might lead one to expect. In the session on recruiting progressive candidates for local office, there's an ER doctor, an AIDS activist, a high-school teacher and a representative from the Organic Consumers Association. There are some that conform to type: thirtyish and pale, sloppily dressed and bleary-eyed. Those are the journalists. There are a lot of them. One organizer put the ratio of conference-goers to reporters at eight to one, which seemed high until I visited one workshop that managed to score drive-bys from...
...says. “He wrote plays and was a concert pianist. If we could all have a touch of Michael, we would all live in a better place.” Dorothy “Dobbie” Vasquez was Ty’s Latin teacher for four years at the Menlo School and also remembers his creativity. She recalls being impressed by a scrapbook that Ty designed for a Greek and Latin club of which Ty was a member. “It was breathtaking....He took a wooden block, and he carved mountains with beautiful pencil drawings...
...environment more congenial for its Druids. To be sure, we have the teaching awards (and they will, happily, remain in place), but we also now inhabit a culture that sends an important message to new tenure-track faculty by providing them with the opportunity to participate in a weeklong teacher training workshop. Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) course evaluations and reports on teaching now play a major role in reviews for promotion and tenure. Resources are allocated in part on the basis of departmental contributions to undergraduate education...
...like you’d like to be in two places at once,” the mother of two says. “At the same time, having a career makes me a better mother and having had children made me in many ways a better writer and teacher.”When Elkins’ oldest son was informed of the $10,000 Pulitzer award, the six-year-old replied, “Wow, that’s pretty cool—can we go buy some toys?” At home, Elkins says...
...state—Nolan says that Cambridge should be taking other “bold steps” that have proven successful in addressing under-performance in cities across the country. Among them is increased tutoring for failing students, the hiring of more math and literacy coaches, and more teacher mentoring programs within the classroom...