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...just really excited to continue to be a part of the Leverett community,” said Brandt, a graduate student in the history of American civilization. “There’s a lot to learn, but I’ve got a great teacher.” Shapiro and her son Robert, a second-grader who Shapiro said grew up in the House and thinks of himself as “junior resident dean of Leverett,” will continue to live nearby. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...Beyond the obvious benefits to students, such an initiative would benefit the public service and nonprofit employers, including, of course, the US government. According to a New York Times article from 2006, the United States will need to recruit two million new teachers in the next few years to fill our growing classrooms. With this challenge in mind, in 2004, Congress attempted to institute “debt forgiveness on new student loans to help recruit more math, science and special ed teachers to underserved areas.” Similarly, a number of states—like New York?...
...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...