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#143777 06/10/05 04:48 PM
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The chances of today's college kids working in the same jobs for the same companies for their whole careers are about zero. In such an age, the greatest survival skill you can have is the ability to learn how to learn. The best way to learn how to learn is to love to learn, and the best way to love to learn is to have great teachers who inspire.

And the best way to ensure that we have teachers who inspire their students is if we recognize and reward those who clearly have done so....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/opinion/10friedman.html


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Public school teachers don't get that very often," especially with No Child Left Behind restrictions, which now require teachers to teach to the tests, and push out the window "all those things that really spark kids imaginations" - like art and music.

thank you, Ms. Loris.
and thank you, Mav.




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Wow. Great idea. Great article.

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Isn't it (both!)? I am going to bring this to someone's attention over this side of the pond. It deserves consideration.

That same phrase really grabbed me too, eta :)


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Just testing!



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#143782 07/11/05 03:37 AM
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it worked! welcome back!



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My, my, my! Blew the dust offa that one din't we then.


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It's CapK!


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Long time no see, 'k!


Meanwhile, back in school...

When I moved to Queens, in New York City, at the age of 14, I found myself, for the first time in my life, considered good at math. In Bombay, math was my worst subject, and I regularly found my place near the bottom of the class rankings in that rigorous subject. But in my American school, so low were their standards that I was - to my parents' disbelief - near the top of the class. It was the same in English and, unexpectedly, in American history, for my school in Bombay included a detailed study of the American Revolution. My American school curriculum had, of course, almost nothing on the subcontinent's freedom struggle. I was mercilessly bullied during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, because my classmates couldn't tell the difference between Iran and India. If I were now to move with my family to India, my children - who go to one of the best private schools in New York - would have to take remedial math and science courses to get into a good school in Bombay.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/opinion/12mehta.html



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Been a long sleep. Obviously got demoted on the way through: 3063 posts and just a Journeyman! Ah well, carpel-tunneldom was alway overrated. Hey, I hear youse guys have been making roolz and bullying newcomers. Can't find any evidence of that, just lots of accusations. What gives?



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