Teachers

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Letters to the editor
Are black leaders hypocritical in their response to hate crime? Plus: Limbaugh's rush to judgment on McCain; do teachers necessitate tutors?
Stealth merchandising
Why is the venerable Scholastic book club company peddling cheesy toys in classrooms?
Letters to the Editor
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
My husband is a man in a woman's world
Being the wife of a grade-school teacher is like being the husband of Queen Elizabeth -- Ol' What's-his-name.
Experimental lesson
I've always tried to make my teaching like an art, but as I've grown more successful, have I become a hack?
Body paranoia
Ghostly heart attacks, cancers and other assorted ills have plagued me for the last 31 years. Could the cause be my beloved job?
After the apocalypse
Returning to the philosophy class that I had canceled, I wasn't sure who or what I would find.
Class dismissed!
After another personal blow-up in philosophy, I took the only out: To shout like Jehovah and declare the end had come.
The migration of the chalk
In a small town in Mexico, a teacher gave me the chalk and demanded a lesson in revolution.
Love letters in the sand
I was his English teacher, 14 years older. But on the beach in Mazatlan, love is love.
"The Iliad" and other tales of war
My momentous monologue turns to dust under the scrutiny of a well-prepared student.
The killer questions
When the Socratic method gets out of hand, students can learn to think -- and to draw blood
Epic moment
Sometimes we just have to stand aside and let our students become the teachers.
The first day of the last year
After poker, sex and forgetting, I face a room full of faces and suddenly remember.
Tough lessons
An interview with firebrand educator Esmi Raji Codell.
To sir, with love?
The last thing my professor taught me was that he was only human.
Walking on silk
A massage teacher in Thailand changes a Westerner's life.
Hell no! We won't grade!
Will the upcoming strike by University of California graduate teaching assistants raise them from their serflike status -- or spell their eventual doom?
Don't stand so close to me
The Supreme Court ruling to protect school districts from liability in sexual harassment cases leaves students to protect themselves.
Class warfare
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.
Into the heart of China
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.
Media Circus: Vice grip
All I really need to know I learned in high school from Robert Fulghum.
Crooning the expat blues
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?
breaking point
It's true, says one teenager -- teachers are being pushed over the edge by the savagery of their students.
The hounds of spring
A stint teaching writing to high school students leaves the author wondering why girls still haven't learned how to dream.
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