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Mathematics professor Noam D. Elkies has been playing and composing music for the piano since the age of three. His mother, a piano teacher, introduced him to music at a young age. He says, “I started playing at three and putting notes on paper shortly after.” Professor Elkies attributes his early interest in music to mathematics, citing the numbers listed above the notes in a beginner’s music book (the numbers indicate which fingers to use). He composed his first piece at the age of six and still plays it to this...
Writer-director Alexander Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor seemed on a winning streak with Election and About Schmidt: both were inventive and quirky, two qualities their newest collaboration, Sideways, unfortunately lacks. The film follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), a burned-out teacher and struggling novelist, and his best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) on a road trip through California’s wine country organized to make the most of Jack’s last days of bachelorhood. The trip in Miles’ mind is about tasting great wines and in Jack’s is about getting laid...
...crime and drug and alcohol abuse. Kwaso is becoming a huge issue in the provinces, and it's leading to domestic violence and major and minor assaults." Makira's youthful premier Stephenson bemoans that loss of potential. "Our greatest need is education," he says. "We don't have enough teachers. Most of those we do have are untrained, and facilities are at a low level. It means the quality of the students we produce is poor." Reuben Buarobo, who comes to Honiara's U.S. war memorial for the great view and to listen to reggae on his radio, hopes...
Gordon said that even under a system where TFing is not required, it should still be encouraged, because part of a graduate education entails learning how to become a good teacher...
...white residents have complained that the efforts to bring black students up to par will divert resources from other students. Accordingly, the phrases "African American" and "minority" are absent from the titles and mission statements of the various initiatives, and the programs are open to all underachieving students. Many teachers are simply ill at ease with the frank public conversations on race that the new strategies sometimes require. To assuage those anxieties, Fornero has hired Deborah Harmon, an African-American education professor from nearby Eastern Michigan University and the mother of two kids who have attended the Ann Arbor schools...