Communicating ideas and opinions stands tantamount as the one skill that all human beings must do well to succeed in their lives. We must talk openly and honestly to convey who we are, and what we want. And we must listen to understand who others are and what they want as well. For real learning is ...

A Two-way Dual Language Program contains Spanish-speaking students and English-speaking students in the same educational environment to provide communicative and academic language development. This is through an interactive and cross-cultural setting. Program participation begins in kindergarten, ...

Dear Mrs. Morgan, You may or may not be familiar with her but she was known as a minor writer, an author of the late-nineteenth-century, and a "local colorist." Her name is Kate Chopin and she is a very skilled writer whose emphasis is on the uniqueness and charm of a given region when ...

Teaching Thinking Dispositions: From Transmission to Enculturation Shari Tishman, Eileen Jay, and D. N. Perkins Harvard University August 1, 1992 This paper was written as part of a project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur ...