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...getting flashed by a singer's breast. It's the unwanted porn e-mail or the hamburger commercial with a woman lasciviously riding a mechanical bull. It's watching a sports program with your young child and hearing the host blurt, "A______!" Tim Tutt, a single, third-grade teacher in Des Moines, calls himself "a liberal, anticensorship person." But he was furious when he visited a website for his students and up popped an ad with a sexy blond. "Boy, did I lose control of the class for a moment," he says. "Then I felt this conservative rage within...
...overestimate the pervasiveness of attitudes discouraging girls from pursuing math and science. I grew up in a university town, the daughter of a female biologist, but still felt societal and peer pressure that made me believe I couldn't be smart at science. I credit my seventh-grade science teacher with encouraging me to break through my personal stereotypes and refusing to allow me to settle for B's or C's when he knew I could achieve...
...Jafsie." John F. Condon, 72, became associated with the case in its second week. He is a retired public school teacher of The Bronx who once did social service work at Sing Sing and has occupied himself from time to time during his later years with writing letters to the newspapers. At the outset he had announced in The Bronx Home News that he would be glad to help restore the child to its parents...
...Harvard Office for the Arts (OFA) has invited Stone to return as a master teacher in the OFA’s Learning from Performers program, and at the luncheon there was some informal discussion of Stone returning to assist the First-Year Arts Program (FAP). Stone says she is very excited about both possibilities and hopes her schedule allows her to pursue them...
Sullivan says that if all the students that leave the school district to attend the charter school came from only one school, then the city would be able to save money by cutting back on teachers and utilities. But as the students will be drawn in “dribs and drabs” from 12 elementary and middle schools, he says it is unlikely that any one school will lose enough students to make cost-saving teacher cutbacks possible...