Teaching

Accomplished couple share a passion for music and teaching

29 Jul 2010

Jeff and Marlena Brown have been teaching piano in Rancho Santa Fe for more than 25 years, so long that they even have “grand-students.� With students ranging in age from 3 to 86, the couple finds a happy harmony, pairing their love of music with their love of teaching.

U. of I. reinstates prof fired over homosexuality teaching

29 Jul 2010

An instructor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- dismissed after a student called his explanation of Roman Catholic teaching on homosexuality "hate speech" -- is being offered his teaching job back, the university said today.

Kindergarten Teaching Affects Success Later In Life, New Study Shows

29 Jul 2010

It has long been thought that the quality of kindergarten education does not have lasting effects on students as they mature into adulthood. This conclusion was based on the findings that by high school, children who had received a superior early education had equivalent scores to peers who had inferior teaching in their childhood.