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POPSVictor McKusick, 86, Dies; Medical Genetics Pioneer As a child, he had planned to become a minister. Then, at 15, he developed a spreading streptococcal infection of his arm and had to spend 10 weeks in a hospital while receiving a sulfa drug, one of the first antibiotics. That experience led him to medicine.
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POPSGirls Score Just as Well as Boys in Math Tests My daughter used to complain that her high school math teacher would often call on a boy to answer a question than call on her when she had her hand raised in class. She knew nothing of the stereotype that females are not as good as males in math. She lived it. Follow the link and read the entire article for further interesting findings.
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POPSTrusting teachers Val Harrison says that the standards of marking for tests has long been shoddy and calls on government to trust teachers with evaluation
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POPSNEA Endorses Reichert I've never been able to get excited about this race and this is just another reason I think it will stay in R hands.
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POPS"STONING FOR BONING" This should be the coarse of study for all American teachers. American Hookers breath a sigh of relief with a fine and time served and then getting "stoned"
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POPSPublic Space 2 There is a connection between this and the previous clip. The first is the result of the collapse of the boundaries between the public and the private so that there is no longer behaviour which is deemed wrong in public. The second is an attempt to reconstruct that boundary.
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POPSObama’s No-Brainer on Education The stakes couldn't be higher. The United States now ranks 25th among 30 industrialized countries in math. "If I told you your basketball team finished in 25th place, you'd be outraged," says former West Virginia governor Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education. When the landmark "A Nation at Risk" report was issued 25 years ago, the education system was ailing, but the United States was still No. 1 in college-graduation rates. Now we are No. 21. "We simply have not progressed," says former Colorado governor Roy Romer, who heads a commission that recently updated the report. "The rest of the world has." For example, the average European nation has 13 more school days than we do.
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POPSCoast to Coast AM Interview w/ Jay Weidner 2012 Weidner discusses 2012 and its connection to mysterious places such as the Denver Airport. The year 2012 may usher in the end of an age and time as we know it could end, he declared, noting that our sun is predicted to be particularly active at this time.
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POPSThe clash of Tocquevillians and Gramscians "While economic Marxism appears to be dead, the Hegelian variety articulated by Gramsci and others has not only survived the fall of the Berlin Wall, but also gone on to challenge the American republic at the level of its most cherished ideas. For more than two centuries America has been an "exceptional" nation, one whose restless entrepreneurial dynamism has been tempered by patriotism and a strong religious-cultural core. The ultimate triumph of Gramscianism would mean the end of this very "exceptionalism." America would at last become Europeanized: statist, thoroughly secular, post-patriotic, and concerned with group hierarchies and group rights in which the idea of equality before the law as traditionally understood by Americans would finally be abandoned. Beneath the surface of our seemingly placid times, the ideological, political, and historical stakes are enormous."
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POPSAnd what values do some of them teach? Let's hear it straight from the mouth of babes: My second year high school daughter told me how their practice teacher asked them after a Math quiz who among them copied the answers from somebody else's paper and who among them allowed others to copy their answers. Quite a number raised their hands. The prcctice teacher took their papers and tore them into pieces. A Values teacher learned that two of her students are not in good terms. She asked them to make up and be friends, OR ELSE, "I will make your grades suffer." In high school, I also remember, on mondays we would have a quiz in religion class, usually 10 numbers. For the 10th number we would be asked, "Did u go to mass?" If answered "No" u get a crossed mark and if u answered "Yes" you get a check mark. Tell me what you think.
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POPSAlexander The Great he began to organize the territory into a realm such as he envisioned. His early death brought an end to his plans. Alexander was born in Pella, capital of Macedonia. His father was Philip II of Macedon, who had conquered Greece; his mother was Olympias, a princess from Epirus. Aristotle was Alexander's tutor, and the literature of Greece was his inspiration. The handsome youth took Achilles of Homer's Iliad, a reputed ancestor, as his hero. Alexander's teachers in military science were his father's generals. When he was only 16, he commanded forces in military actions against hill tribes.
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