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Walter Isaacson's article on national standards for public schools makes many important points [April 27]. As an English teacher at a high school with many Navy kids, I'd love to know that students coming from other states have a common background for me to start from. But before we set standards, we need to define the purpose of a public education. Right now, public schools are trying to be all things to all people: teaching about everything from harassment to baby care, and doing much of it poorly. We need a mission statement and a definition of basic...
...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?...
...year in and year out, a dedicated and inspiring teacher who represents some of the best that Harvard has to offer,” says Andrew J. Romig, assistant director of studies for the History and Literature department...
...Born in 1955 in Oakland. Met his wife, a high school teacher, at a screening of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" at the National Archives. They have four children...