"We are creating a free university in our occupied space - that's what a teach-in is all about, " said spokesman Kieran Ford.
Woolsey, who served as CIA director under President Bill Clinton, was taking part in a "teach-in" at UCLA, a series of such forums at universities across the nation.
Earth Day was the idea of the late Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin who in a speech in September 1969 proposed a day for an environmental teach-in.
Two days before this year's festival, The Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans held a "teach-in" regarding noise ordinances and zoning regulations, motivated by confrontations over street performances and music venues in newly gentrifying neighborhoods.
He suggested April 22, a Wednesday, as an ideal day to hold the teach-in, as a weekday event would mean more students would be involved, according to nelsonearthday.net, a website run by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
This program will provide extra help to middle- and high school students who fall behind in reading and math, expand Advanced Placement programs in low-income schools, and invite math and science professionals from the private sector to teach part-time in our high schools.
In due course, they take in the exiled Snow -- in return for housecleaning and cooking services -- and teach her how to stand on her own two feet.
How can we possibly indoctrinate impressionable young students about the need to shut down energy production and scientific dissent if we allow the Heartland Institute to teach science in a non-political manner?
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The project is about the active making of a different type of public space and public arena (through radio, teach-ins, actions) in order to alter and fight from the inside the perverse dynamics that tend to ghettoize social sectors and their spaces and lives.
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If you have a kid that is intrigued by puzzles and you want to teach him real-world skills in thinking logically while having fun at the same time, you might want to consider buying him or her one or more puzzle boxes as a gift.
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One drawback was that in the teach-me mode, we didn't see all of the examples of compound kanji words that the reference mode gave us. (A kanji can have different readings and, depending on the character or characters it is combined with, different meanings.) App creator Rory Prior says he is considering adding a vocabulary-training feature to the teach-me mode to address that.
Instead, he is de-marginalizing ethics in classrooms in an attempt to re-teach responsible capitalism.
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Sue Graves, a safety coordinator for the Lincoln County School District, told lawmakers that high school students in her district take semester-long classes that teach CPR and other survival techniques in the wake of a giant earthquake.
Dominated at the moment by courses in mathematics, computer science, and engineering, MOOCs may be ill-equipped to teach students to write and express themselves or to provide the hands-on experience of working in a lab.
Differences borne from devolution grew in 2012 - what it is to learn, qualify, teach in Wales and England will diverge all the more in 2013.
Entrepreneurship, which is extremely difficult to teach in traditional classroom style, might be more effectively absorbed in multi-player game format.
In 1962, Umberto Eco wrote that such works teach a "perceptual gymnastics" needed in a fast-moving, media-saturated world.
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UN's own plans for bridge-building include a corps of volunteers to teach people in developing countries how to use computers, and a health network to provide hospitals and clinics with up-to-date medical information.
Stoicism still has a tremendous amount to teach us, especially in these passion-saturated times.
But in too many schools, teachers don't have college majors -- or even minors -- in the subjects they teach.
And ICBC's board got a new member: John Thornton, who retired as Goldman's co-president in 2003 to teach at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
One Bulgarian call-centre, for example, reckons that it takes only four months to teach German-speaking employees to answer calls in Dutch as well.
The project led Dr Mitra to set up the Granny Cloud, which uses volunteers - usually retired people - in the UK to teach Indian children via Skype's video chat software.
His proposal is similar to a system that Newark teachers agreed to last year, making teachers eligible for bonuses if they are star performers who teach in struggling schools or hard-to-staff subject areas.
When asked about six personal-finance concepts, fewer than 20% of teachers and teachers-in-training said they felt "very competent" to teach those topics, and one of the areas they reported feeling least competent about was saving and investing, according to a 2009 survey of 1, 200 K-12 teachers and prospective teachers published by the National Endowment for Financial Education.
As for Fuller, he does not intend to remain in the classroom long-term but says his Teach for America experience is still vital to the impact he wants to have in the future.
It hand-picks highly-motivated graduates to teach for two years in schools with a significant proportion of poor children.
You remember that old home-economics class they used to teach in high school.
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Executive principal Emma Hadley said the four-day trip in February would teach pupils about art, architecture, music, terrorism and politics.
Alan Chen and David Beim, Professor of Professional Practice, Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, asked me to teach a group of senior-level executives interested in doing business in China.
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