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...teacher, she has abilities that I barely comprehend,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I have no idea how she acquired her skill, other than to be sure that she didn’t get it from...
...Looking back, Banaji says that her teaching experience in India at the age of five might have shaped how she communicates with students today. After Banaji and her sister were born, their mother, a school teacher, became unhappy that she had to stay at home and could not teach anymore. She had a carpenter make three small tables and very little chairs, and opened a school in the house...
...Foreigners have also run afoul of Thailand's lèse-majesté laws. Recently accused expatriates include an Australian teacher whose novel referenced a fictional wayward prince, and the BBC's Thailand-based correspondent whose online pieces described the role of the monarchy within Thai politics. Both cases have prompted an outcry from international human-rights organizations. "By trying to protect the King's image, the government is actually doing it harm, and in some cases the charge of lèse-majesté has been entirely inappropriate and unjustified," said media watchdog Reporters Without Borders...
...onto every college and university campus in the world. The majority of colleges and universities in the U.S. rely on only three or four information-management systems, such as PeopleSoft, which in turn allow students to add and drop courses, get their grades and handle the student and teacher directories. TerriblyClever is already integrating its iPhone application with those major systems - which appeals to campuses, since the iPhone is such a cheap and ubiquitous tool for students. At Stanford, 2,500 of the school's 8,000 students have an iPhone; another 1,500 have the iPod Touch, which runs...
...Kennedy School Professor Graham T. Allison Jr. called Huntington "an outstanding teacher, a great thinker, and a valued colleague" who had the “rare capacity” for larger insights into overarching themes like democratization and military politics...