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Some psychiatric drugs do help children, but school and family are crucial, too.
By Lawrence H. Diller, M.D.
March 10, 2000
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A behavioral pediatrician questions the wisdom of medicating our children.
By Lawrence H. Diller, M.D.
March 9, 2000
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Are black leaders hypocritical in their response to hate crime? Plus: Limbaugh's rush to judgment on McCain; do teachers necessitate tutors?
Letters to the editor
March 8, 2000
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Why is the venerable Scholastic book club company peddling cheesy toys in classrooms?
By Shoshana Marchand
February 29, 2000
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Turning xenophobic about the Japanese Plus: Stephen Prothero's article is a simple case of Skull and Bones envy; so what if Al inhaled? We all did
Letters to the Editor
January 26, 2000
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Being the wife of a grade-school teacher is like being the husband of Queen Elizabeth -- Ol' What's-his-name.
By Mary Valle
January 12, 2000
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I've always tried to make my teaching like an art, but as I've grown more successful, have I become a hack?
By David Alford
November 19, 1999
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Ghostly heart attacks, cancers and other assorted ills have plagued me for the last 31 years. Could the cause be my beloved job?
By David Alford
November 12, 1999
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Returning to the philosophy class that I had canceled, I wasn't sure who or what I would find.
By David Alford
October 29, 1999
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After another personal blow-up in philosophy, I took the only out: To shout like Jehovah and declare the end had come.
By David Alford
October 22, 1999
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In a small town in Mexico, a teacher gave me the chalk and demanded a lesson in revolution.
By David Alford
October 15, 1999
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I was his English teacher, 14 years older. But on the beach in Mazatlan, love is love.
By Susan McKinney de Ortega
October 15, 1999
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My momentous monologue turns to dust under the scrutiny of a well-prepared student.
By David Alford
October 8, 1999
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When the Socratic method gets out of hand, students can learn to think -- and to draw blood
By David Alford
October 1, 1999
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Sometimes we just have to stand aside and let our students become the teachers.
By David Alford
September 17, 1999
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After poker, sex and forgetting, I face a room full of faces and suddenly remember.
By David Alford
September 10, 1999
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An interview with firebrand educator Esmi Raji Codell.
By Fiona Morgan
June 14, 1999
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The last thing my professor taught me was that he was only human.
By Susanna Stromberg
March 13, 1999
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A massage teacher in Thailand changes a Westerner's life.
By Thomas Golembeski
February 22, 1999
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Will the upcoming strike by University of California graduate teaching assistants raise them from their serflike status -- or spell their eventual doom?
By Sean McMeekin
November 30, 1998
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The Supreme Court ruling to protect school districts from liability in sexual harassment cases leaves students to protect themselves.
By Dawn MacKeen
June 30, 1998
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In the second of two articles, a teacher who was on the front lines describes how a California high school became a battleground in the struggle over what America's students should be taught about homosexuality.
By Ira Eisenberg
June 2, 1998
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On summer vacation, Joshua Cohen and a fellow English teacher based in Hunan venture into the rural north to visit their star student -- and get a glimpse of rural realities.
By Joshua Cohen
May 12, 1998
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All I really need to know I learned in high school from Robert Fulghum.
By Rebecca Ransom
November 6, 1997
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You move abroad, and suddenly you're making more money and dating sexier women than you ever could in the states. So why aren't you happy?
By Karl Taro Greenfeld
September 30, 1997
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