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...event for the last three years, teaches four classes every year in the Ceramics Program’s satellite-studio in Quincy House, and frequently exhibits his own work on and off campus. David’s interest in ceramics began early, and he cites his high school ceramics teacher and a pottery-enthusiast neighbor as his greatest influences. “I lived in my neighbor’s pottery studio and threw on the wheel obsessively,” David says. When he was 16 he worked as an assistant in his high school ceramics studio...
...mere 69 percent of rural, public -high-school students attended schools offering Advanced Placement courses, compared to 93 percent of public-high-school students in cities and 96 percent in suburbs. Rural public schools historically have also had fewer instructional computers with Internet access per capita and lower-paid teachers (even after adjusting for the lower cost of living in rural areas). On the other hand, expenditures per student have tended to be higher, and student-teacher ratios lower, in rural areas compared to cities and suburbs. Like elsewhere in the United States, rural public education is failing its students...
...somehow managed to do it while getting out of school at 3 p.m. and having summers off. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the reason many poorer children don't get a good education is that education is not stressed at home. I am a teacher in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country, and the students have after-school programs and Saturday academy and even go to school during Christmas vacation yet remain way behind their suburban counterparts. Most of the parents would rather their kids be street smart than book smart. Arne Duncan cites schools...
...today,” said Patricia Suhrcke, the director of the Cambridge Forum. The Cambridge Forum—which has been operating for 42 years—reaches listeners nationwide each week through radio broadcasts on NPR stations. Stiles, the author of Vanderbilt’s biography, is a teacher of nonfiction creative writing at Columbia University and the author of “Jesse James: The Last Rebel of the Civil War,” a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Stiles said he chose Vanderbilt as the subject of his book because Vanderbilt?...
...into the mailbox, Anderson’s work begins. Physical and electronic versions of applications arrive in the basement of 86 Brattle Street, where Anderson leads a team of students and staff who organize the piles of paper.The incoming documents—including the applications, secondary school reports, and teacher recommendations—then get scanned, a process that began this year as an electronic back-up system. “It’s really a security device to make sure we have an electronic record of the applications in case the building burns down,” said...