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4/2008 - It’s time for new priorities: attitude over aptitude, effort over ability,
and character over talent. Sometimes the deepest wisdom is expressed in old adages.
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3/2008 - In the spring of 1953, I was an impatient young man awaiting the tardy arrival of my girl friend outside the old girl’s dorm ...
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7/2006 - The arts have always been the focus of Interlochen Arts Academy. From its very beginning, the school’s reputation in arts
training has drawn students with exceptional talent in dance, music, theatre arts, visual arts ...
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10/2005 -
It is past 10:00 p.m. when physics instructor David E. Holzwarth '78 fishes a key out of
his pocket and unlocks the door to the building that has fired his imagination and consumed his thoughts for the past few
years.
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4/2005 -
It’s time. All the research, writing, rewriting, organizing, practicing and fretting are
finished. The PowerPoint presentation is ready and loaded on your laptop, and the big screen has been set up behind you ...
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3/2005 - The classroom has a fine dirt floor
raked into neatly curved furrows and a ceiling of
deepening blue sky. The posts and rails ...
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12/2004 - It is the last regular day of fall semester and the students
in Rob Gustke's Colorado natural history class are presenting their final projects ...
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5/2004 - It’s a very old question as to what is the appropriate order of teaching science disciplines.
As recently as the late 19th century, as science became part of the public school curriculum ...
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4/2004 - Recently, a few teachers at Cranbrook started using a technology that seemed like an anathema to the culture. They enhanced their classrooms by adding Moodle,
an e-learning software ...
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3/2004 - A highlight in the lower school is the Visiting Authors Program – a unique opportunity for our
youngest students to become inspired by the stories of the authors themselves ...
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12/2003 - If you ask second graders about Native Americans, they'll say “teepees, buffalos and horses."...
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6/2003 - The ethics class at Webb is currently watching the documentary film “Hoop Dreams.”
The students are ...
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4/2003 - Back in the 1930s, Culver embarked upon an ambitious program of analysis and restructuring. Then, "distinguished advisers from Harvard,
the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin were called in ...
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2/2003 - As schools increasingly look to employ technology to improve student learning, interactive white
boards can facilitate that aspiration ...
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6/2002 - Whether it’s English or mathematics, at Exeter we call all our classes “Harkness”
classes and our teachers “Harkness” teachers.
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3/2002 - When I have read the Little
House on the Prairie sseries to my three children, I find
that in Wilder’s day students were obligated to demonstrate to
the entire town community mastery of their subjects ...
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