Word: teachers
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...Disney expansion strategy. Where once the company aimed to keep its target market in perpetual childhood, now it is priming kids for the more overtly erotic signals of puberty. The Jonas Brothers concert is like a very gentle sex-education lecture given by the most adorable young teacher around, and his two brothers...
...should have the opportunity to experience,” he said. A Cambridge native who had gone through the city’s public school system, Schuster said he was originally encouraged to run for school committee by the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts. Schuster, then working as a teacher in CPS, said he noticed that the committee lacked teacher representation. When he was elected, he was the only current teacher on the committee. During his time on the committee, Schuster said he emphasized civics education and helped start a sub-committee to improve the way the school committee?...
Perhaps a more apt criticism of OLPC is that the laptops don’t directly support local educational infrastructure. The project is decentralized and shifts agency to kids and away from state educational systems. OLPC supplies equipment, not teacher training or better curriculum. But there’s no reason why OLPC can’t accompany other state-sponsored initiatives. Ablorde Ashigbi ’11, an OLPC representative, claims, “An XO is never supposed to substitute for a teacher. But it does purposefully empower the children. People don’t realize there?...
...fiscal-stimulus measures are kicking in. In November, the government announced a $586 billion spending package, mainly in new infrastructure projects, and since then, policymakers have introduced a long slate of measures to boost consumer spending. The government raised pension payments to retirees from state-owned enterprises, hiked teacher salaries, cut sales taxes on some vehicles and subsidized purchases of appliances for rural consumers. Some local officials have even issued spending coupons. The effort to keep growth going at all costs will continue, the optimists say. "China needs to build up credibility and establish its reputation as it rises...
...reflects. Rather than the classic sports-beginnings story of the pot-bellied uncle with the flimsy baseball cap living vicariously through his bony nephew by tossing him in some peewee league before he can read, O’Connor actually got into wrestling another way. His primary school gym teacher, who was also a varsity wrestling head coach, spotted some talent in the seven-year-old. “I think he just kind of saw that I was an athletic little terror in gym class,” O’Connor recalls. “He asked...