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Harvard Medical School and three affiliated hospitals will double the pool of money paid to doctors who teach, in hopes of luring them away from patients and research.
A suburban school board that put stickers in high school science books saying evolution is "a theory, not a fact" abandoned its legal battle to keep them Tuesday after four years.
Pluto may be no more than a distant, icy rock in the minds of astronomers who stripped it of planethood, but its downgrade to a "dwarf planet" has created a teachable moment in classrooms nationwide.
A group of mostly white seventh and eighth graders sleepily sauntered into their school library, soon to get a surprise awakening about a part of their town's history they never knew existed.
The state Board of Education on Wednesday rejected a state panel's proposal to change high school standards on evolution by calling on students to "critically analyze" the theory.
House lawmakers scuttled a bill that would have required public school students to be told that evolution is not empirically proven — the latest setback for critics of evolution.
Grammar will return to Queensland classrooms in Years 11 and 12 under a revised English syllabus requiring that students be taught grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Those who want to relive their college years — the Greek houses, sporting events, or late-night cram sessions at the local pizza parlor — can now do so thanks to a role-playing game, Kindly State University, that arrived this month in the virtual world, Second Life.
most invasive types of birth control, including pills, patches and even implants, has rekindled the debate over "sex education" in public schools. The good news is that this debate has been turned up a notch or two by publicity surrounding Portland's decision.
Making life difficult for dedicated teachers forces them out. IT'S THAT time of the year. A colleague of mine recently received the news that his teaching contract at the school would not be renewed. He was assured that this had nothing to do with the quality of his teaching.
A chat with archaeologist and educator Dr. Shelby Brown about archaeology, teaching, and students. How did you become an archaeologist? A decision made in college, or a childhood dream?
SOME events not mentioned in Prime Minister John Howard's guide to teaching Australian history: 1830 Tasmanian Aborigines are forcibly moved to Flinders Island. 1847 First of about 60,000 Pacific Islander workers are brought into Australia to work on cane plantations.
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship teaches at-risk youths the fundamentals of business and offers them a chance to realize their dreams
If the South Medford High School English teacher wins her case (and I pray she doesn't), will students have the right, for personal safety reasons, to not have her as their English teacher? Will parents be allowed to pull their sons and daughters from Shirley Katz's class for saf …
The parents of Damion Frye's ninth-grade students are spending their evenings this fall doing something they thought they had left behind long ago: homework. -- I don't think I'd get the same kind of support this teacher gets from my administration, but it would be nice.
That may not be the most surprising finding from a report released last week by the Educause Center for Applied Research, the analytical arm of the nonprofit group that promotes effective technology use in higher education
Europe's main human rights body will vote next week on a resolution opposing the teaching of creationist and intelligent design views in school science classes.
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By: Walter F. Rodriguez "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." - Abraham Lincoln
In a changing world, teachers must lead by example. APPARENTLY, today's students aren't going to take it any more. Apparently, times have changed. Apparently, they refuse to accept that teachers deserve automatic respect. Apparently a teaching diploma no longer cuts it.
The educational performance of boys has generated much notice of late. They are falling behind girls at just about every grade level and dropping out of school in ever greater numbers.
Brilliant and easy ideas and activities for a teacher to make open house night memorable.
SCIENCE teacher Leela Holland is on her fourth short-term contract in two years.
An American Library Association task force last year called school librarians "highly endangered." The task force said laying all accountability for school success on reading and math scores denies the instructional value of libraries and the teaching role of librarians.
All you professors starting out at new institutions (like me) will be getting orientation sessions to show you the academic ropes — procedures on academic misconduct, FERPA guidelines, sexual harassment policies, etc., but you can save some time and just listen to hiphop.
New reports looking at how the teacher-quality provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act are playing out in the nation's classrooms suggest that, while compliance with the 5½-year-old federal law is widespread, problems and inequities persist and, in the end, labeling a teach …
Rigorous intellectualism is too often accompanied by pride and elitism, and genuine, self-sacrificial love is too often accompanied by poor grammar. We must aim for the center of the mark: simplicity without slovenliness, excellence without elitism.
When you look back on your school days, doesn't it seem like you studied all the time? However, most of us seem to have retained almost nothing from our early immersion in math, history, and foreign language.
"…in a world, in a time when change swirls about our being: war, globalization, big money, work, technologies (mechanical, electronic, transhuman, genetic engineering…), vast migrations, the rise of strong religions, we merely accept and buy many of the changes."
Who are the Kurds? Most people in the west don't know too much about them-- I admit that I didn't until I did some reading.... This is one of the best articles I've read about the Kurds. They are an unusual people, with a very impressive history!
This all took place a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. I probably had no business teaching school: I was immature, unorganized, emotionally frazzled, and much cooler than the other teachers.
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