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While some may criticize the deal that former President Bill Clinton made with soda companies to remove high-calorie, sugary drinks from school vending machines, at least he made a deal [May 15]. Parents, PTAs and school boards have apparently been unable to muster similar strength to teach kids and vendors that the availability of soda is not a right. Some people lament the loss of revenue from the drink machines, but since when did revenue rate higher than the health of our kids? Until we change our diets and teach our children how to make better eating choices...
...shall teach thee what the Crushing Fire is? It is God's kindled fire, Which shall mount above the hearts of the damned; It shall verily rise over them like a vault, On outstretched columns...
...yoga Thursday,” says Anna Reinert ’08, who has faithfully gone to Pacelli’s class since freshman year and describes him to friends as “a Hindu Billy Crystal.”Pacelli, who has been teaching yoga for more than 25 years, has developed a large following at the MAC for his patient teaching style and spiritual approach to yoga and life. And it doesn’t hurt that he remembers every single one of his students’ names.Jack Ward, an employee at the MAC, says that Gene...
...Missouri have recently lowered the scores students need in order to pass state tests. He also complains that the Education Department has done little to enforce a provision in the law that requires all teachers to either have a degree or pass a competency test in the subjects they teach. "There's been a lot of concern that Secretary Spellings and her office have been providing too much flexibility and allowing [states] to water down its intent," says Petrilli. Spellings argues she has brought "commonsense changes" while keeping the law tough...
...certainly one of the glories of Harvard that individual faculty members have the talent and enthusiasm to teach unique courses, not canned or straight from a textbook. But it does not follow that our teaching should be a solitary pursuit, in the same “each-tub-on-its-own-bottom” style that complicates so much of Harvard’s administration. Rather, professors should think of teaching as a cooperative activity, involving students, graduate assistants, faculty colleagues and administrators. We need more collective responsibility and institutional memory in our teaching. We do not need more individual...