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...James Bond and any film with Sophia Loren. Like a lot of Americans, he found memorizing historical facts boring. Because his family was directly related to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of the 16th U.S. President, he routinely recycled the same short paper he had written about her for easy classroom grades. "My idea of American history was just a course you were forced to take," Hanks says, laughing. (See the top 10 Tom Hanks hairstyles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...more than half of them in Atlanta--after a Feb. 10 audit found that an unusually high number of wrong answers on students' standardized tests had been erased and replaced with the correct ones. Of those schools, almost two dozen had suspicious erasure patterns on more than 50% of classroom tests, suggesting an orchestrated attempt to raise scores and improve school standing under the No Child Left Behind Act. Inquiries will be handled by individual school districts, raising fears that those investigating the problem may be the very ones who initially condoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...called for teachers to be “healers” in the classroom. Instead of “punching kids out” when they misbehave, educators should instead focus on providing a nurturing environment for students who live in the midst of gunfire, Duncan said...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keynote Speaker Calls for ‘Healers’ in the Classroom | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...weren’t hard enough to focus during Math 1b already, those ladies lucky(?) enough to see a side of Vitti not usually aired in the classroom now have something else to distract them. Concentration during office hours with this TF will probably be even more difficult for any girl who has seen his well-defined function...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Reveals All | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

...From my own experience, the first two years determine how long you stay in the classroom and also how effective you are,” said Allison L. Sikora ’11, a participant in the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program, which assists students in earning educator licensures to teach middle or high school in Massachusetts upon graduating...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study Looks at Indicators of Teacher Effectiveness | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

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