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Despite the multiplicity of perspectives an anthology allows, it may not be the ideal medium for a new account of African-American history at Harvard. A better scenario might be for a professor with cross-disciplinary training in English, Afro-American studies and history to write a full-length study of the varieties of African-American experience at Harvard and Radcliffe. A scholar with W.E.B. Du Bois’s interdisciplinary interests could produce a narrative of enormous academic value and of national interest. Any takers...
...technology has helped give kids more opportunity to write, because computers make it easier for kids to write faster and with professional-looking results. The computer also offers new writing outlets via websites, according to Kathy Henderson, author of The Young Writer's Guide to Getting Published. "Some kids are just interested in sharing their work," she says. "There are plenty of sites where they can do that." Her book lists a number of websites for young writers, as well as literary magazines...
Want to encourage your child to write? Approach your child's school or the local YMCA about getting a class going. Check websites of national groups like the Writer's Voice to see what's in your area. Start a kids' writing group with other parents. When at home, read to your children--good readers make good writers. Encourage kids to write every day: letters to grandparents, haikus about their favorite dessert. Suggest they keep a journal and lead by example--let them see you writing notes and keeping a journal. Don't be critical of their efforts. The most...
...board of education. It was just sort of the natural thing for me. But I didn't really have any great desire, sadly, to be a teacher. I was always the class clown in high school. I always liked to cut up. So I thought I would try to write something funny, and it worked...
...Shek's chief of staff. At that hour-long meeting, Chang remained silent?and he kept silent until the day he died. The "Young Marshal" remains a tragic and elusive figure in modern Chinese history. Even after he was released from house arrest in Taiwan, Chang declined to write his memoirs. He also disappointed his former comrades when he refused to visit northeast China, where they had established a museum in his honor and maintained his former home. Instead, he spent his time studying the Bible. Chang kidnapped Chiang because he wanted a united China. Regrettably, China and Taiwan still...