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Whatever happened to the cool kid who sat in the back of high school honors chem and snickered because he was smarter than the teacher?He got his Ph.D. from Harvard, abandoned academia for the film industry, and is now poised to appear in a movie theater near you.Introducing Randy Olson, a 1984 graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who stopped by the Museum of Fine Arts last Saturday to screen his first full-length documentary feature, “Flock of Dodos,” as part of a nation-wide, week-long screening tour...
According to the Department of Education’s Web site, those goals are to increase accountability, improve teacher quality, and confirm progress through standardized testing results...
...over as principal of Foothill High School two years ago, JoAnn Murphy has wanted to involve parents in their children's education. It's hardly an original notion, but considering that the 100 students at the Albuquerque school are all incarcerated juvenile offenders, her application to establish a Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) at the school was groundbreaking. "It showed that in all venues it's important to have parental involvement," says Anna Weselak, national PTA president...
...arrived deficient in some areas of knowledge, just as I was over-familiar with others, but I soon learned that my years of homeschooling, loosely structured and largely self-directed study had taught me early on the most important lesson of my academic career: that even the most skilled teacher is nothing without an able learner, and, moreover, that actively learning is miles away from passively "being taught...
...Described by Director of Federal Relations Suzanne Day as an “omnibus bill,” the Higher Education Act includes undergraduate and graduate student aid, early intervention programs, and resources for teacher training. The bill was last reauthorized in 1998 and is renewed about every six years, but is now several years off cycle...