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...reading about photosynthesis and they asked me to leave the Science Center library for making too much noise. I felt like a blind person who had finally come to see, and I screamed with joy when I [found out] how this all works. If you have the right teacher, every day is a revelation...
...from careers in science, according to the panel members. Sidney C. Wolff, the first female director of a prominent U.S. observatory, was once told that aggressiveness, a necessity for being successful in the sciences, was unattractive in women. When future NASA researcher Nancy Grace Roman asked a high school teacher if she could take an additional year of mathematics, the reaction was, “What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?” Aside from discrimination, Yale Professor of Physics C. Meg Urry struggled with the lack of role models in the sciences. She said...
...Southeast Asia office of the International Crisis Group. What's more, adds terrorism expert Zachary Abuza of the United States Institute of Peace, Azahari has been passing his skills to a new generation of bombmakers who will be "only too eager to show their skills and avenge their teacher's death." Indeed, last Friday security forces found a videotape with instructions in bombmaking at a Semarang house they suspect was recently occupied by Nurdin. Police say the tape also contained statements by the Oct. 1 Bali suicide bombers in which they declare they will go straight to paradise once they...
...Like many minority women who have fought their way to the upper ranks of corporate management, Battles is the product of a fiercely education-minded mother. But her mother, who worked as a teacher and a librarian, was just as passionate about community service. As a member of the sorority Delta Sigma Theta, she gave back all her life-and counseled her daughter from an early...
...that such marks are merely the result of declining expectations of students who have come to accept unacceptable standards for teaching. It is admittedly reasonable at a large, research-oriented university to have graduate students lead sections instead of professors. Yet it is completely unreasonable not to require basic teacher training for all TFs. In a 1995 meeting of the Faculty Council, it was agreed that teaching quality needed to improve. Yet mandates for bringing about such improvements were left to individual departments. Fortunately, some departments have done the right thing and have required TFs to attend a weekend training...