Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.dailykos.com (Views: 168, Clicks: 9)
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Speech is the way you interact with the world. It is not just travel that requires knowing foreign languages. It is something that, scared as some people are, is essential for navigating even the United States. Not just Spanish, but Chinese and other Asian languages can be useful for local navigation. And the world gets more interesting when you can understand what it is saying...
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Topic: Blogs
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Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.dailykos.com (Views: 169, Clicks: 3)
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Memorizing a set of facts so that one will "know" them on a particular day may result in a passing score, but ultimately nothing will actually be learned. Requiring everyday work with respect to a literary text, studying literature as it is meant to be studied (read -> think -> write -> discuss -> repeat), that produces actual literacy.
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Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.truth-out.org (Views: 128, Clicks: 2)
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I see evidence of student learning in my literature classroom every day. Some of it can be measured and compiled and recorded. Some of it cannot. But it's happening. I know it is because I'm a teacher, and my students are not vessels overflowing with gallons of facts. They are amazing, thinking, feeling humans who daily ask questions about literature -- which translate into questions about life -- that I can't, or won't, give answers to, factual or otherwise.
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Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.dailykos.com (Views: 196, Clicks: 4)
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The Permanent School Fund was set up by the founders of Texas, written into the Constitution to ensure that all children in the state of Texas could receive a quality public education. Unfortunately, members of the board apparently do not believe in public education as Sam Houston and the founders envisioned it. Last week the SBOE members decided to take funds set aside for our children’s education to buy real estate to rent to charter schools at a subsidized rate.
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Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.truth-out.org (Views: 139, Clicks: 4)
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Higher education has a responsibility not only to search for the truth regardless of where it may lead, but also to educate students to make authority and power politically and morally accountable. What needs to be understood is that higher education may be one of the few institutions we have left in the United States where knowledge, values and learning offer a glimpse of the promise of education for nurturing public values, critical hope and a sense of civic responsibility.
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Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.cmonitor.com (Views: 136, Clicks: 0)
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We are no longer living in the 1960s, when it was presumed that autism was the result of cold or indifferent mothers. I'm sure parents of a child with Down syndrome would like their child's disability to be the fault of their socioeconomic standing, in which case their child's disability could be "cured" by a higher-paying job. Did reporter Melanie Asmar not hear about recent research that found children with ADHD suffer primarily from an actual delay in brain development?
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