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“Acting as W.E.B. DuBois was a different experience of learning English to me. I changed myself from a student taking notes during classes and doing boring grammar exercises to the one who made great effort to search information, and used the information to make up a complete picture of historic figures. “Read More →

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At last week’s conference of social studies teachers and supervisors from across the state I had a glimpse of “the profession” – depression and dispassion; intellectual frustration; suffocated innovation; struggle with a corrupted, authoritarian form without regard for individual initiative.Read More →

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Stewart Parnell, who heads the Peanut Corp. of America, knew there was salmonella in peanuts he sold which killed eight and sickened 600. How is he unlike milk distributors in China who knew their product was poisoned six weeks before they were forced to go public?Read More →

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In case you missed it, Chinese CCTV employees Monday celebrated Latern Festival, the 15th or final day of the New Year festivities, in Beijing, by blatantly disregarding a prohibition against setting off fireworks. The result: they set fire to one of their new, though not yet open, 241-room hotels.Read More →

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WESTCHESTER, NY — Recession-squeezed car owners in Westchester County, New York, are spending more on car repairs. Mechanics say business is booming, but they report some car owners are making penny-wise but pound-foolish decisions in a misguided effort to save money.Read More →