Gorjifard: Testing Teachers
Last Monday, 25,000 Chicago public school teachers went on strike to protest the educational reform agenda proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Last Monday, 25,000 Chicago public school teachers went on strike to protest the educational reform agenda proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
With the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens still fresh amidst the growing wildfire of anti-American sentiment across the Middle East, a schlocky, roughly edited YouTube video has emerged as the alleged motive for the crimes.
Over the summer, Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson introduced a number of new harm reduction policies with the stated goal of mitigating threats to the health and safety of the student body by addressing the problem of binge drinking.
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly denounced President Barack Obama for failing to draw clear "red lines" around Iran's nuclear program and rebuked the United States' "moral right" to hold Israel back from independent military action.
Before the camera is a formidable, rather pale white dude with long, frizzy hair, reminiscent of an American Girl doll dunked in water and then left out to dry in the sun.
Throughout history, some critics of feminism have claimed that the ideology espouses nothing less than the wholesale destruction of men.
My coach ride up to Hanover last week was unusual for me. Usually, I'm anxiously excited to get back up to school.
The recently concluded Republican and Democratic National Conventions have stirred up much interest in the presidential race.
Albert Einstein once mocked, "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." One might think that education, above all else, would embrace and benefit from new methodologies and technologies.
Last month, the national unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent. Given that the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent in October 2009, the economy must have improved significantly over the last three years, right? Actually, no.
Over the summer, Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson proposed several new harm reduction measures targeted primarily at reducing binge drinking.
Over the summer, I first heard of the stratospheric popularity of Korean music artist Psy's "Gangnam Style," not from my Korean friends or relatives, but from a Taiwanese-American acquaintance who is an avid aficionado of American rap music.
Dear '16: Hello, and welcome to college! The next four years of your life will be eventful, tumultuous and it goes without saying at a place like Dartmouth action-packed.
Yoon Ji Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Here's my benediction for the Class of 2016: Prepare to be disappointed. By the virtue of the fact that you have been admitted to one of the most elite universities in the nation, you've likely scored astronomically on your standardized tests and reaped numerous distinctions and accolades.
Jestina Clayton grew up in Sierra Leone, a poor country in which the average income is a mere $875 a year.
For my past two consecutive off-terms, I've crisscrossed the North American continent whenever my jobs allowed, seeing the sights in Boston, Montreal, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Vancouver, New York and Los Angeles.
To the delight of Dartmouth's internet trolls, the popular yet infamous message board Bored at Baker will be back up and running on Sept.
It has been a bloody couple of weeks: a barrage of bullets at a midnight movie screening, a hate-fueled massacre at a Sikh temple, a shootout on the outskirts of a Texas university and now, most recently, a close call when a security guard thwarted a gunman's attempt to open fire at a "pro-family" organization in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The recent spate of random gun violence has predictably reignited the "right to bear arms" debate, with politicians from both sides of the aisle using these recent incidents as evidence either for stricter or for looser gun laws.
Last week, over 750 research interns convened at the National Institute of Health's 2012 Poster Day to present their findings.
We've heard many calls to action encouraging the United States to "do something" in places like Uganda, Libya and most recently, Syria.