The automobile has probably changed people's way of life more than any other invention of the last century.More than electric lights,television,air travel ,or even computers,automobiles have changed where people live and work ,and how they make a liv...
The First Woman Doctor In early days no medical(医科的)college took a woman student. Elizabeth Blackwell, however, was determined to become a doctor. The young American wrote again and again to a number of medicalcolleges, asking if she could be e...
Summer Vacation is Too Long Frederick M. Hess is the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, which is a nonprofit organization that conducts research on many public issues. He says that a long summer vacation doesn'...
Teaching penmanship As you prepare to become elementary school teachers, you'll be hearing a lot of disscussion about the relevance of teaching permanship, the qulity of one's handwriting. Now years ago when I was studying education in college, readi...
College Admission Examination in America As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I hear often from students: I'm only a 1050. The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is...
College Admission Examination in America As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I hear often from students: I'm only a 1050. The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is...
The History of Harvard University Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard. They were all started before the American Re...
Science's Lingua Franca While many rural languages are going extinct, new urban hybrid languages may help to maintain global diversity. Hundreds of new forms of English have already been spawned around the world. Some traditional languages are losing...
Web Logs Instead of passing notes in class, teens are now sharing information on their Web logs, or blogs. A study showed that one in five teens in America has a blog, and about twice as many read them. But some schools have prohibited (禁止) stude...
Encouragement and Praise-holic For years we have been told that encouraging a childs self-respect is important to his or her success in life. But child experts are now learning that too much praise can lead to the opposite effect. Praise-holic kids w...
