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Ultimately, the teaching hotline is a tool of empowerment. First, it empowers students to participate without fear of retribution in the process of improving teaching, and it does so in real time. Furthermore, it empowers teaching fellows to get ready-to-hand information during the semester regarding the strengths and weaknesses of their teaching. Never again should a TF be surprised by his or her CUE scores at the end of the semester, because evaluation will be an on-going practice. With the growing importance of teaching portfolios for TFs, the ability to avoid recording low scores will...

Author: By Jared R. Pearlman, Ryan A. Petersen, and Matthew L. Sundquist | Title: Better Teaching, an E-Mail Away | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...students, teaching fellows (TFs), and faculty members all share the goal of improving teaching, this service will undoubtedly catch disapproving eyes. We hope, however, that through the thoughtful contributions of undergraduates and the cooperation of willing TFs and professors, this program will become an indisputably beneficial tool in Harvard’s classrooms...

Author: By Jared R. Pearlman, Ryan A. Petersen, and Matthew L. Sundquist | Title: Better Teaching, an E-Mail Away | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...called Cedar Revolution - put Syria to rout, at least temporarily. The war between Hizballah and Israel last year, however, did huge physical damage to Lebanon. And emboldened by a strengthened alliance with Tehran, Damascus and its Lebanese allies began to fight back, accusing the government of being a tool of the West and attacking what it saw as unwarranted interference by the U.S. in Lebanese affairs. Last November six ministers, including all five Shi'a, resigned from the government, shortly before a cabinet vote to adopt a U.N. draft resolution on creating an international tribunal to try those accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Martyr's Son Calls for Justice | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

...with a trend in niched America: alternative media for parents. Alt-rockers They Might Be Giants, Lisa Loeb and the Del Fuegos' Dan Zanes make CDs for their aging fans' tots. The Rockabye Baby! CD series lulls Junior to sleep with covers of songs by the Cure, Radiohead and Tool. The stylish magazine Cookie is marketed to "modern" (i.e., urbane and moneyed) parents who would rather expose their children to Eames than Elmo. Babies may change your life, these media tell us. But there's no reason they need to change your iTunes playlist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Complex: Too Cool for Preschool | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...patient as demeaning or as a sexual advance." Psychiatry will never rid itself entirely of practitioners who use talking therapy to satisfy voyeuristic urges, but it doesn't want to lose the wheat with the chaff. Indeed, the metaphorical couch is gaining favor over pills as the main tool of treatment for many conditions, with training institutions recently increasing their emphasis on psychotherapy. "We really want to get the balance right," says Charles Le Feuvre, chair of the r.a.n.z.c.p.'s Psychotherapy Section, "and it may indeed be the case that things have gone too far away from psychotherapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Couch | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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