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...confront civic issues, such as education reform, homelessness, and underfunded public transportation. Since a landslide victory last May catapulted Villaraigosa into Los Angeles’ City Hall—and onto the cover of Newsweek—he has levied strong criticism against the city’s teachers unions and school board members. Last night, he emphasized the importance of improving local education in solving civic problems faced by Los Angeles and other major urban areas. Villaraigosa, whose wife is a teacher, said that “reforming our public schools is the central public policy issue...
...years, this policy deserves to be reversed in order to incentivize academic excellence.The no-release policy was originally enacted to reduce competition among students and promote cooperation. The logic went that if students felt secure enough in their grades to work with each other, then HBS would have 51 teachers instead of 50 students and one teacher. With the policy, HBS prioritized a collegial environment and a safe classroom atmosphere ahead of possible repercussions to its image and to its academics.Over the past seven years, many concerns have been raised about the policy. Anecdotal evidence from professors and administrators...
...Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 10. Trouble with Poetry Billy Collins Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Team of Rivals Doris Kearns-Goodwin 3. Education of a Coach David Halberstam 4. The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr 5. The Bedside Book of Birds Graeme Gibson 6. Teacher Man Frank McCourt 7. Little History of the World E.H. Gombrich 8. The Truth (with Jokes) Al Franken 9. Great War for Civilization Robert Fisk 10. Postwar Jonathan Kozol
What could be more gratifying to kindergartners than correcting their teacher's "mistakes"? When Mrs. Millie tells her charges to hang up their goats and get out their paper and penguins, they loudly and gleefully put her right, as little readers surely will too. ("We know what you mean," the kindergartners yell.) Half the fun comes from seeing Mrs. Millie's misnomers made literal in Mathieu's drawings. One depicts a perplexed primate who finds himself serving as filler in a "gorilla cheese sandwich"; another shows the indignant weasel on whom the kids happily daub their paintings. As the school...
...natural explanation,” Edwards says. “But science keeps coming up with explanations.”The tradition of invoking a “God of the gaps” has its roots in the creationism debates that predate even the 1925 trial of Tennessee teacher John T. Scopes.“Intelligent design had its heyday in the 19th century when natural science was first introduced into colleges in the pre-Civil War era,” Edwards says. “The intelligent design movement now is just a variant on the creationism debates...