What Can We Learn from the Teachers in West Virginia?Fichtenbaum, Rudy H
50.B 细节理解题.根据第四段第一句"Dotti Pownall,a fifth-grader teacher in West Virginia,…"可知,Pownall是一名教师.故选B. 51.B 主旨大意题.纵观全文,都在围绕运动球椅的好处这个话题来介绍的.故选B. 点评做题时要在理解好文意的基础上,与题目有机的结合,从文章中找到相关细节性的句子与选项细细比对...
1Teachers grumble over pay everywhere, but in West Virginia Wesleyan College the anger is acute. Salaries here have barely moved since 2000, and the average assistant professor’s pay has fallen below that at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College. On a campus with just 86 full...
Dottie Pownall, a fifth-grade teacher in West Virginia, USA, has been using balls as chairs since December 2008. "The students love them", she says. Pownall took a survey of her students. She found that 80% of the students thought sitting on the balls helped them pay more attention to...
TheWest Virginia teachers strikewas an incredible display of grassroots activism, with educators coming together to get the compensation they deserve. While the strike in West Virginia ended witha 5 percent raise and a hold on health insurance premiums, teachers in other cities are taking notice. ...
Public school teachers in West Virginia returned to school Thursday after an education bill they opposed was effectively killed in the state House. Teachers in 54 of the state’s 55 counties walked out Tuesday over SB 451, which would have used public fu
make anyone want to move around. So, more and more teachers are letting students have a ball. By sitting on exercise balls instead of chairs, teachers find students' posture (姿势) and attention improve. Dottie Pownall, a fifth-grade teacher in West Virginia, USA, has been using b[...
Dotti Pownall a fifth-grader teacher in West Virginia has been using balls as chairs since December 2008."The students love them." she says. Pownall took a survey of her students. She found that 80 percent thought sitting on the balls helped them concentrate (专注) better: "Besides they're...
The walkout in Arizona followed similar actions by teachers in West Virginia, Kentucky and Oklahoma, which were the first statewide U.S. teacher work stoppages since the 1990s. All four states have Republican governors and Republican-dominated legislatures. Teachers have demanded that states ...
PUBLIC EDUCATION | Teachers in West Virginia ended their statewide strike on Tuesday after Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill that will give public educators and other state employees an average 5-percent pay increase. “We have to move away from the idea that education is a necessary evil that ...