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...Those who can’t do, teach.” I suppose those who can’t do sports, write about them. I may not be a runner, but I can recognize it’s unfair that the University doesn’t care about those that can and want to run. It’s not hard to make it a holiday. There’s all the reason to do so, and no reason...
After serving four years as an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard, Neil Gross has accepted a tenure offer from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he will start teaching this fall. Gross said that he could not turn down the position that the Canadian university offered him. “UBC was able to offer me tenure now, along with a competitive financial package, the chance to teach in an up-and-coming sociology department, and a great life for me and my family in a beautiful, dynamic, international city,” he wrote...
...benefit from the spiritual and moral guidance of priests and nuns, especially the example so many of them set as aids to the poor. We may not impart the church's ban on premarital sex to our children, but we're glad the church is there to help us teach our kids that sex should be shared in a context of love, respect and responsibility. While many of us may object to the Vatican's blanket condemnation of stem cell research, it's still good to have powerful global voices like the Pope's warning us not to play Frankenstein...
...percent—which is 32 points higher than 59 percent for the state. Simmons said that the district should track students’ success after high school before lauding the graduation rate. Additionally, the tendency to evaluate progress by scores and to “teach to the test” is a concern of parents who consider leaving the public school system. “I feel the teachers are under incredible pressure in terms of the amount of testing they have to administer from the state as well as the district,” said Risa Lavelle...
...with my hopelessly carnivorous friends that eating healthfully doesn’t mean sacrificing taste, I finally found myself in a roomful of people who were making their career out of just that philosophy. The Healthy Kitchens’ motto—“See one, do one, teach one”—boils down simply and cleanly to the reversal of the “apple a day” adage. After too many years with not enough apples in the modern diet, it’s the doctor’s turn to give...