Word: teaching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...must respect the court's ruling, but I know what I will teach my children...
...helpful, no? Any number of ungraceful metaphors like this one can be extended to try and describe the difficult process of learning to write, and a book like “Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer’s Guide” is full of them. Purporting to teach aspiring writers useful things like “Finding, Researching, and Reporting Topics” and “Building a Career in Magazines and Books,” “Telling True Stories” is a collection of essays derived from the five annual Neiman Conferences...
...family’s Circle Pines, Minn., home. Having studied abroad during college, this high school valedictorian and her husband wanted to provide their children with a rigorous education including a solid foundation in the humanities. Unsatisfied with local schools and armed with Carla Jentoft’s teaching degree from St. Olaf College, they decided to homeschool. The Jentofts enrolled their children in art and music classes and began to build a comprehensive home library. They never bought a television and focused on ways to bring their family closer. It seems to have worked. While she is reticent...
...here. The topic of “merit”—however that amorphous term can be simplified—is a fruitless conversation, and it distracts from the more important issues on which we all should focus. I always say that Harvard freshmen have more to teach us than upperclassmen have to teach them: There’s rarely a freshman I talk to that’s comfortable with their position in their respective Harvard classes—so many believe they don’t deserve it. When is it that we stray from this...
...Claudine Gay, nothing is just black or white.Her office is colored in shades of pink and yellow, and a small Haitian painting peeks out from the bookshelf. This is where the newcomer to Harvard scrutinizes America in Technicolor.Though the government professor only arrived in September and has yet to teach her first course, Gay is already shattering the way scholars look at race and politics in the U.S. “She’s just made us rethink some important idea we’ve thought all along,” says Jayne Professor of Government and Professor...