Summer 2000
Lost In Action
By Gilbert T. Sewall
No one contests that there is some legitimate place for projects and
activities in the classroom. But lost in the whirlwind of all the doing and
doing is a sense of where the real action should be--in the minds of our
students.
Bad Attitude
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By Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
Tired of students who don't hesitate to say how
boring they find class, who have replaced self-discipline with unfettered
self-expression, and who hold nothing in higher esteem than their own
opinions? Read this.
Democracy as a Universal Value
By Amartya Sen
What was the most important development of the 20thh century? Not as
difficult a choice as it first seems, says this Nobel Prize winner: It was
the rise of democracy.
The State of Democracy: 2000
By Adrian Karatnycky
This highly regarded survey by Freedom House finds that approximately 39
percent of the world's population live in Free societies, 26 percent in
Partly Free societies, and 36 percent in Not Free societies.
Summertime... and Reading Beckons
From The Delights of Reading
By Otto Bettmann
Of course the closets are a clutter and the grass should be mowed, but
the mind and spirit need time to replenish themselves. Here's some
inspiration.
The Shape of the Book
By Alberto Manguel
The journey from the Mesopotamian clay tablets--some as large as 67
square feet--to today's handy paperback has been a fascinating one.
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