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Through Harvard’s Undergraduate Teacher Education Program, Lam will be certified to teach high school upon graduating. “I’ve always been a talker and a nerd and teaching combines that,” she says. But before diving into the world of education, Lam will pursue master’s degrees in comparative and international education and comparative social policy at Oxford next fall as a Rhodes Scholar...
...Anschutz's companies. While Anschutz is a noted political conservative, who recently bought the Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch and who also owns the San Francisco Examiner and the Washington Examiner, most of Examiner.com's stories seem to have no political leanings. (Contributor Carl Herman, a laid-off California teacher, has the conversation-opening title of nonpartisan Examiner...
...government school systems in Bihar and Jharkhand were already abysmal well before Naxal activity picked up this year. Average class sizes in the two states are 75 and 65, respectively, for a single teacher, compared to the national average of 40. Literacy rates, too, are well below the national average of 65%. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has made development in Naxal-affected areas - including education - a priority, but the attacks and occupation threaten to undo what limited progress his government had made. In the Aurangabad district of Bihar, for example, the government approved about $28,600 to build...
Which led my husband to pose the question to our daughters, What would Jesus watch? That in turn led to an intriguing--and useful--conversation around our dinner table. It's the oldest teacher's trick, better to show than tell: the Sermon on the Mount was clean and clear, but Jesus also offered parables, little mysteries to unwrap and examine for their coded messages. This is a delivery device especially good for teenagers building their rebellious muscles...
...long-standing flaw in many of Africa's liberation movements. Though they claim to represent the masses, Africa's revolutions were mostly led by Western-educated black élites. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's pan-Africanist, earned a B.A., and M.A., in the U.S. Zimbabwean Robert Mugabe is a former teacher who was raised, in part, by the Jesuits and earned four university degrees by correspondence in prison. Mbeki too spent years in exile studying Marxism in Britain and the Soviet Union. Even Mandela was a chief's son and one of the country's first black lawyers before he became...