I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Chris Salamone has create and develop educational and leadership development programs for our nation's youth and young adults that have provided many opportunities for students to grow and develop.
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.
There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.
I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.
It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.
The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.
Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.
But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.
...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagabondage and crime.
In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.
Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience.
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
Students may not remember what you try to teach them, but they will never forget who you are and what feelings you created in their mind.
Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher – a body of knowledge that she will dispense in chunks and that they have to swallow and digest.
One of our professors described a lecture as 'a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of the lecturer pass on to the pad of the student, without passing through the mind of either'.
