Word: teachers
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...piece called "Safe Sex" a teacher discusses his sex-ed curriculum. Turns out the guide to safe sex includes condoms and duct tape on the girl's mouth. The bewildered teacher says he thought that was how it was done. That's hilarious. And so original...
...released the shocking The Piano Teacher, in which Isabelle Huppert plays a sexually repressed woman living in bourgeois Austrian society. She acts out her sadomasochistic fantasies by watching porn, sniffing semen-soaked tissues and cutting her genitals with a razor blade before embarking on an affair with a 17-year-old student. (Read about an American university's battle over porn...
...more flexible, creative thinking. Though students from the programs lag for a few years in English, by fifth grade they perform as well as or better than their monolingual peers on standardized reading and math tests. For multicultural families, the psychological boost can also be important. Lueth, a former teacher and manufacturing executive, co-founded the school as a way to expose her adopted Chinese daughter Lucy to her native culture. Lucy used to squirm when cousins asked why her skin color was different from theirs; before she started at Yinghua, she was resistant to exploring anything related to China...
...appears that Tim Morrison thinks first-year airline pilots are of more value and should be paid considerably more than grade-school teachers [Nov. 9]. Morrison says budget cuts have "trimmed starting pay at major airlines to $36,000--little more than a grade-school teacher's." My question is, Who is really more valuable, the person flying travelers around or the person who taught the person in the plane to read, write, calculate and, unfortunately in this case, use a laptop? As a former teacher, I found Morrison's comment condescending and unnecessary...
...very informal, either through a coach, teacher, family member, or someone who was already part of Harvard,” he says. “There was not a lot of outreach.”He adds, “Colleges of this kind took a long glance in the mirror and figured this is really not representative of what the country could...