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...effort made a statement about the impact of the Crimson’s rookie class.“I couldn’t be more proud of the young guys,” O’Connor said. “One thing you can’t teach is heart. Every one of them went out there and put in their all every time. “It makes my job easy as a captain when the young [wrestlers] are inspiring everyone else.”Despite the tremendous praise for Peppelman and his classmates—who amassed...
...Roughly 2.3 million public school teachers in the U.S. have tenure - a perk reserved for the noblest of professions (professors and judges also enjoy such rights). The problem with tenure, Rhee and other critics say, is that it inadvertently protects incompetent teachers from being fired. The Teach for America alumna, who oversees some 50,000 students and 5,000 teachers, has sparked controversy in the capital by proposing a new contract allowing teachers to earn as much as $130,000 a year if they forgo their tenure rights (a teacher's salary, on average, is less than $48,000; most...
...several years can be as powerful and can lead to cognitive changes.” Winner said that if it is proven that musical training improves cognition, the ways in which children are educated could be changed for the better. In the future, music may be an aid to teach other subject materials...
...self-proclaimed “salesman of science,” C. Ronald Kahn says he loves simplifying the complexity of Type 2 Diabetes in order to teach the general public about the disease...
...Allen, an associate professor of earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the reason can be attributed to the U.S.'s superior earthquake preparation - California has strict building codes that are designed to prevent structures from collapse, and events like the Nov. 13 ShakeOut teach individuals what to do in an emergency. For the most part, though, the low death tolls can be attributed to luck. "We haven't had a big earthquake beneath one of our metropolitan centers yet," Allen says. "For example, in '89, the quake started beneath the mountains. There was some...