newteacher U.S. Education in Chinese Lock Step? Bad Move. By Brian P. Coppola and Yong Zhao The education systems in China and the United States not only are headed in opposite directions, but are aiming at exactly what the other system is trying to give up. What seems to be underappreciated in this country is how actively the Asian systems are trying to embrace the values and outcomes that we appear to be so willing to abandon: specifically, the American penchant for promoting creativity, individualism, innovation, and nonconformity. In China obstacles still stand in the way of rapid, comprehensive change, obstacles that are tied to the culture's long history of inflexible, standards-based, test-driven education. Entrepreneurialism is an easy goal, and more than a few professors in China have been known to say that what is needed is the ability to prepare students who are able to generate more intellectual property for their country. * Incentivize the teaching profession. Brian P.
Reporting & Journalism Videos on Vimeo List of historical drama films The historical period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Some historical dramas are docudramas, which attempt an accurate portrayal of a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow. Other historical dramas are fictionalized tales that are based on an actual person and their deeds, such as Braveheart, which is loosely based on the 13th-century knight William Wallace's fight for Scotland's independence. Due to the sheer volume of films included in this genre and in the interest of continuity, this list is primarily focused on films pertaining to the history of Near Eastern and Western civilization. For films pertaining to the history of East Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia, please refer also to the list of Asian historical drama films. Films set in prehistory[edit] Films set in Antiquity (until the fall of the Roman Empire in the West)[edit] Films set in the later 20th century[edit]
Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers Historyteacher.net Index Enseñar historia para el presente | El Presente del Pasado 2.0 por Melissa Lara Flores * La historia necesita buenos obreros capaces de ejecutar trabajos de ingenieros, con la capacidad de ver las cosas un poco más arriba y trazar planosLucien Febvre Cuando comencé a impartir clases de historia en secundaria y preparatoria, de inmediato me enfrenté a comentarios como “la historia no sirve para nada, eso ya pasó”, “ay, maestra: ¿de verdad le gusta la historia?”, “¿usted que estudió?” Muchas de las estrategias implementadas fueron exitosas. ¿Por qué preocupa tanto la enseñanza de la historia? La labor educativa no se encuentra sólo en las manos de un maestro, eso queda claro. Generaciones anteriores tenían un panorama distinto, pues se les enseñaba que la escuela era sinónimo de superación, que existían un mundo de oportunidades y que la competencia no era tan ardua. Carles Feixa, antropólogo catalán especializado en culturas juveniles, llama “juventud líquida” a las generaciones actuales y las compara con la novela de ciencia ficción de Philip K.
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Varsity Academics | Home of the Concord Review, the National Writing Board The Concord Review, Inc., was founded in March 1987 to recognize and to publish exemplary history essays by high school students in the English-speaking world. With the Summer 2013 Issue (#97), 1,066 research papers (average 6,000 words, with endnotes and bibliography) have been published from authors in forty-six states and thirty-eight other countries. The Concord Review remains the only quarterly journal in the world to publish the academic work of secondary students. Many of our authors have sent reprints of their papers with their college application materials, and they have gone on to Brown (25), Chicago (20), Columbia (21), Cornell (15), Dartmouth (20), Harvard (116), Oxford (13), Pennsylvania (23), Princeton (60), Stanford (38), Yale (97), and a number of other fine institutions, including Amherst, Berkeley, Bryn Mawr, Caltech, Cambridge, Chicago, McGill, Middlebury, MIT, Reed, Smith, Trinity, Tufts, Virginia, Wellesley, Wesleyan, and Williams.
Who Holds the Federal Debt See the history of the debt limit since 1980. As of the end of March, the federal government owed $14.27 trillion to a wide variety of holders of U.S. Treasury securities. This graphic depicts who those creditors are and the amount they have bought in treasuries. Click on the arrows next to a category to expand its subcategories. All amounts are in billions of dollars. Background Treasury securities are the most sought-after in the world because the assumption that United States would always be able to repay its debts has generally gone unquestioned. More than $9 trillion of the total debt is held by “the public” — a broad category that includes individual investors in the United States and overseas, the Federal Reserve system, and foreign governments and central banks. Almost all of the debt held by the public is “marketable,” meaning that those securities are bought and sold in financial markets. Notes
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