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...asked about my godson, who had just begun his freshman year at Wake Forest, where he was hoping against hope for a walk-on nod from the terrific baseball program there. Bo had been at two or three of the recent post-season games, as had his mom, and was a true-blue Red Sox devotee...
...Your story on women and the sciences was a wake-up call to anyone who is hanging on to a one-size-fits-all view of teaching math and scientific subjects." Cathy Seeley Austin, Texas...
...Your story on women and the sciences was a wake-up call to anyone who is hanging on to a one-size-fits-all view of teaching math and scientific subjects. Research confirms what perceptive teachers know: different people (whether they differ by gender, age or simply nature's diversity) learn at different times and in different ways. We cannot cling to a naive assumption that most students will learn in the same way if they just apply themselves. We know how to teach mathematics for all students: by using instruction strategies that target visual and perceptive ways of learning...
...when I saw him reach for a handkerchief from the sleeve of his scarlet vestments, I remembered a conversation I had last week with a Vatican insider convinced that Ratzinger was perfectly positioned to succeed John Paul II. "Anything can happen of course," the source told me. "Ratzinger could wake up Monday with a cold." There's obviously no way to know if some undecided cardinals saw a sign from above in Ratzinger's minor health hiccup, or if it reminded others that he may be too old. But the rest of us are looking for signals everywhere while...
...preview screening at the Harvard Film Archive on April 7, Potter explains her decision to focus on Sept. 11 as follows: “No one death is any worse than any other death but the combination of the multiplication of these deaths in the media and the wake-up call that American foreign policy could incite that much hatred was what made this so specific...