What does it take to support effective teaching and learning in rural Colombia? That was the question that the founders of Fundación Escuela Nueva (FEN) set out to address in the 1970’s. Since that time, FEN´s flagship program, Escuela Nueva, has encompassed an innovative approach to ...
Whitney Pennington Rodgers: One way I'd love to kick things off,Bob, you mentioned, at the top of your talk,that you run this Harvard Study of Adult Developmentand gave us sort of a snippet of what that is.But could you tell us a little bit more about the study,what does it track...
The shiny stuff (political scandals, celebrity nonsense, and more) in the long run, does not matter. We must turn away from the distractions, but it’s hard when those who “design” the distractions are very VERY good at it. The challenge with facing up to the mul...
When he announced the new designation at a press conference Wednesday, WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that pandemic is not a word the WHO uses "lightly or carelessly." "It's a word that if misused can cause unreasonable fear or unjustified acceptance that the fight is over, le...
Insult is the act of disrespecting or demeaning someone, while offend can mean causing upset or annoyance, often emotionally.
To be fair the car he is approaching is exactly the same model and strange gold colour as ours – but it does not contain his family. It contains someone else’s. “Where is daddy going?” Milk asks. “Has he turned into a real Zombie? Mayhem says, looking worried. ...
I’m not sure I agree with that, but as the topic was germane, I didn’t argue. Instead, I offered something learned this morning from Reddit: A woman mentioned a habit she now does regularly: if there’s something positive she’s heard about someone, she makes a point of telling tha...
Word usage Note "摧残" is different from "摧毁". "摧残" means injury, and most of the objects are people's bodies and spirits; "摧毁" means complete destruction, and most of the objects are buildings, ideological systems, and systems. ...
Question:How does the TV, telephone, and computer transmit sounds and images? Tell me in a way a kindergartener would understand. I have bigger questions, such as if God caused the Big Bang, what caused God? And smaller questions: Why does the pinky toenail grow faster than the others?
because I won't let Missis Spishyosir mark me with the cross, sir, an' me with as fine a breast o' milk as ever was for 'im, sir--ah! ah! ah! " "Hem!" said the little man, "that's different from what I understood." He was quite honest, but who does not know how disa...