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...Balakot, I met a teacher, Said Rasool, who had come down from one of these villages to seek help. He was so dazed and desperate that, even four days after the earthquake, he still hadn't washed the blood of his students off his cream-colored trousers as he wandered from one cluster of soldiers to another, pleading that they come back to his village and help him dig out his students. But there was still too much work to be done in Balakot before the soldiers could follow the teacher up into the mountains. And by then...
...intriguing step is the possible creation of a new class in the Core Curriculum that would focus on the Silk Road. Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History Mark C. Elliott, co-teacher of Historical Studies A-13 “China: Traditions and Transformations,” has said that he and Shelemay want to lead such a course together...
...important to understand how that occurs. Just to put a blanket term on it, and say, 'Well, they're evil'-that doesn't really explain what happens. The fact is real people are committing these crimes, and it could be your neighbor, or the local high-school gym teacher, or whatever. They are real human beings. They had childhoods, they had events in their lives: their first kiss, their prom date, all of this stuff. That's what I'm interested in-the psychological switch in their brain that takes them from being a person like everybody else, and puts...
...stories about children whose only siblings had been killed, or whose parents were unable to care for them, and about a school system that was unable to do anything for them other than shove them, 30 or more to a class, into a room with a 25-year old teacher who doesn’t even have her master’s degree yet and who doesn’t understand what she is supposed to be teaching them. If you ask her what our country’s schools need, she will not answer “better testing...
...that's Berkeley, but the trend is clear: according to Kevin Jennings, who in 1990 founded a gay-teacher group that later morphed into GLSEN, many of the kids who start GSAs identify themselves as straight. Some will later come out, of course, but Jennings believes a majority of GSA members are heterosexuals who find anti-gay rhetoric as offensive as racism. "We're gonna win," says Jennings, speaking expansively of the gay movement, "because of what's happening in high schools right now ... This is the generation that gets...