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Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he "discovered" them. The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back.
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In Alaska, students are calling their teacher "lao shi." In Illinois, they're learning that one plus one equals "er." And in western Massachusetts, kindergarten students who can sing their ABCs will soon start honing Mandarin accents.
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NEW DELHI -- It has been called essential reading for every Indian child, a lively illustrated storybook aimed at raising youthful awareness of the injustices of the country's caste system, much as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" exposed the indignities of slavery to white America.
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RIGA, Latvia  - The middle-aged teacher sweated  and swore as he switched awkwardly between Russian and Latvian,  taking his distracted class through the geography of China's  Chang Jiang River valley.
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India faces the difficulty of educating its children in public schools that have sunk to spectacularly low levels.
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Moves to bring sex out of the closet in  largely conservative India have kicked up a morality debate  between educators who say sex education will reduce HIV rates,  and critics who fear it will corrupt young minds.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Andrea Mamani stood in front of her students the other day and started the afternoon lesson by pointing to her head.
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Academics claim that patriotism should be taught as a controversial issue in schools.
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PORT BLAIR, India -- Hari Krishna was back in school yesterday, confused as ever in his chemistry class, but grateful for any place to learn at all.
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Carol Brody, an elementary school guidance counselor, has some advice for those wonder why educators are frustrated. "They should walk for one hour in a teacher's shoes," Brody said, "and then you wouldn't hear those criticisms from them again."
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A governmental plan to shift the main language of instruction in the nationa s Russian high schools to Estonian is being viewed with uncertainty and pessimism by principals and teachers, a recent survey by the ...
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NEW DELHI, Feb. 12 -- Two fatal shootings and a stabbing in Indian schools have rattled parents and teachers here, forcing India to confront an issue it had previously known mainly through TV news footage from the United States.
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The current mindset in Pakistan appears to be flexible on the Kashmir issue. Similarly, flexibility is needed from the Indian side.
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A think-tank calls for soldiers to be retrained as teachers to tackle indiscipline in the classroom.
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KHANPUR, India -- U.S. politics aren't usually the subject of gossip in the homes of this sleepy rice- and wheat-growing village in northern India. But when Bobby Jindal, an American of Indian descent, was elected governor of Louisiana this month, the residents of his ancestral village erupted in...
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By Shaun Epperson, Tulsa World, Okla.  Jun. 6--Some local teachers were selected for an out-of-this-world learning opportunity this month designed to expand their knowledge and help them enhance their curriculum.
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As children head back to school savvy  teachers are looking for the best ways to help students  maximize their learning potential.