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...Luckily, in one village, a tall man walked up to me and said hello. He was the local teacher and could speak a little English. He showed me the rubble of his destroyed schoolhouse. Only two things had been salvaged from the building: a small, waterlogged globe used for geography lessons and a framed photograph of junta leader Than Shwe that normally hung at the front of the classroom. Asked if Than Shwe was a good person, the teacher laughed. "No, very bad." Asked why he had salvaged the picture the teacher struggled for the right English word and said...
...week after the cyclone, no government officials have come to the teacher's village to assess the damage. But fear of the junta pervades. So just to be safe, the picture of General Than Shwe is propped up against one of the schoolhouse's few remaining pillars. As I walk back to my boat, the teacher asks where I come from. I tell him. He asks me whether in my country people can "say government bad." I say, yes, we can. He looks at me and shakes his head. Then the teacher makes another gesture. He points at the waterlogged...
...said. The UC received 208 nominations for the awards this year. “If nothing else, the numbers should tell you that there is excellent teaching at Harvard,” said Student Affairs Committee chair Jon T. Staff V ’10. The students and the teachers they nominated were invited to the banquet in Dunster House, where psychology professor Stephen Pinker gave the keynote address. The winners do not receive cash prizes; instead, the money that was given for the award pays for the dinner. The commonality among the candidates was not just brilliance, Staff said...
...implications. The litigious threats are among a recent spate of well-publicized incidents in which conflicts that have failed to find mediation in the classroom have spilled into other realms, like the Internet or the courthouse. Like the Horace Mann case, featuring vicious Facebook groups aimed at high school teachers, Venkatesan’s move to a lawsuit and book deal represent a failure of reconciliation within the classroom. Student-teacher arguments are nothing new, of course, but these escalated clashes still suggest a lack of mutual respect and an inability to resolve disagreements amicably. Venkatesan would have done well...
...down the street, Obama talked with Jody Coleman, a 33-year-old, about the cost of gasoline that has Coleman spending $65 a week to fill up the tank of his truck each for the commute to his job at a shelving factory 18 miles away. Fourth-grade teacher Mary Rasp, a fifth-generation resident of Elkhart, had been strolling with her visiting 10-year-old grandson Sam, and rushed over to shake Obama's hand. A Democrat, she will be voting for Obama in Tuesday's Indiana primary, she said. "Yes I am - and I know Republicans...