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After calmly recording each observation on a blackboard, Franklin turned to her audience. "Being an urban teacher is a lot like being a cardiologist or a dermatologist," she explained. "You may be a doctor, but that doesn't mean you know the heart, or the skin as an organ. It's the same thing with the urban teacher. You have a set of skills that make you a good teacher. But here you need a new set of skills...
When asked by an audience member to voice his opinion on the pending admission of Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Turkey into the EU, he stated that he supports their admission. Klaus used the blackboard to demonstrate his logic, drawing a graph indicating that the more member states that join, the shallower their integration will...
...beginnings of a new Afghanistan can be found in Razia Aqbalzada's classroom at the Shinbul Girl's Primary School. The blackboard has been taken over by a visiting election officer who is telling the students about the Sept. 18 vote for the country's parliament and provincial councils. But the students at the back of the room are more interested in the sudden appearance of a reporter than in how to mark a ballot. That's until their teacher slams her hand on the desk. "Why are you not listening?" she chides. "You must pay attention...
DIED. EVAN HUNTER, 78, author who, under the pen name Ed McBain, defined the genre of the gritty, graphic police procedural novel; of cancer of the larynx; in Weston, Conn. Under his real name, he wrote the acclaimed 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but none approached the popularity of his 87th Precinct series, which, beginning with 1956's Cop Hater, followed the personal and professional lives of a team of utterly human cops solving brutal crimes and paved the way for countless crime writers and hit TV shows like Hill Street...
Within the sheltering ivy-kissed walls of Harvard Stadium, however, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind. They could see how the next three months would unfurl, as clearly and simply as the plays drawn up on the blackboard in Dillon Fieldhouse. Only the details had yet to be filled in. There would be a comeback or two and a couple of blowout wins. There would be a sunny September day where Ryan Fitzpatrick’s receivers made catch after balletic catch. There would be a frigid October afternoon where Bobby Everett’s defense...