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...count on success. “Almost no one wins the first time,” Ethel Klein, who now works as a pollster in New York, told the rookie challenger. But defying conventional wisdom, Nolan came out above all other candidates, as she and 28-year-old Cambridge teacher Luc D. Schuster unseated incumbents in an election process that rarely favors the underdog...
...nutrition, which emphasized the concept of balance in a healthy lifestyle. A makeshift scale was used to illustrate the need to balance the energy required for exercise and everyday activity with the energy provided by food. In the yoga workshop, Deborah R. Cohen ’91, a yoga teacher, taught the girls exercises for energy and relaxation. Some exercises were also intended to convey a sense of empowerment for the girls participating. “I am strong/I am bold/My own power/I can hold,” they recited during one. In the body image workshop, the girls were...
...within the kids' control, that their intelligence is malleable," says Lisa Blackwell, a research scientist at Columbia University who has worked with Dweck to develop and run the program, which has helped increase the students' interest in school and turned around their declining math grades. More than any teacher or workshop, Blackwell says, "parents can play a critical role in conveying this message to their children by praising their effort, strategy and progress rather than emphasizing their 'smartness' or praising high performance alone. Most of all, parents should let their kids know that mistakes are a part of learning...
...members of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, are creeping through the mean streets of Iraq's meanest town when their mission comes in. Intelligence officers at the Marines' headquarters at Firm Base One, at the edge of Fallujah, have zeroed in on an insurgent: a local teacher named Taufiq Latif Saleh, suspected of being the leader of a 10-person bombmaking cell. Fox Company hits two "dry" houses before they find Saleh, a burly, bearded man in a grimy dishdasha. "I am a teacher! I am a teacher!" he protests as the Marines march him out into the courtyard...
...know what it’s like to be the working poor.”Currently an IT consultant for non-profits, Green moved to Cambridge at 19 after becoming the first member of his family to graduate from college. He took his first job as a fifth-grade teacher at a Somerville private school, an experience he says will serve him well if elected to the council.“Cambridge is blessed, and I do mean blessed, to be home of two of the world’s premier educational institutions. In doing...