Word: minnesota
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Burt first began teaching a science fiction class at Macalester College in Minnesota, where he drafted his reading list with the help of several students. He brought the course with him to Harvard and taught it for the first time in Fall...
...Crimson women’s hockey team hopes that its recent success is a goofor this weekend’s two-game set against one of its biggest rivals, Minnesota...
Harvard (6-3-1, 6-3-0 ECAC), currently ranked No. 9 in the country, has been surging recently with a three-game winning streak and five-game unbeaten streak, but No. 2 Minnesota (13-2-1, 9-2-1-1 WCHA) has proven a fierce competitor to the Crimson in the past. The Golden Gophers swept last season’s two-game set and beat Harvard in the 2004 and 2005 national title games. The Crimson has dropped eight of the last nine games in the series...
...half in Mandarin, with the expectation of proficiency in both. In Yinghua's classrooms, the walls are covered not with ABCs but with pictures and Chinese characters describing seasons, weather and the months of the year. On a hallway map of the world, the phrase we live in beautiful minnesota is written in Chinese next to their home state. During a recent lesson in American history, the classroom walls featured images of - and Chinese words for - Mount Rushmore, the White House and President Obama. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
Lueth recently won an $800,000 grant from the Department of Education to develop a teaching model for immersion middle schools, and she advises educators around the country who are starting their own programs. If Yinghua can make Mandarin a success in Minnesota, she tells them, so can they. "This is a glorious culture - and an increasingly important language - that we are meaningfully teaching to our children," she says. "And we're in the middle of nowhere...