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Volume 3 Month 1 Day 30 – Address of Kapil Sibal at National Awards ceremony

Address of
Shri. Kapil Sibal
Hon’ble Minister of Human Resource Development
“National Awards to Teachers, 2008 Function”
Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi
at
11:40 am
on
5th September, 2009
Your Excellency the Vice President of India, Shri Mohammad Hamid
Ansari, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Smt D.
Purandeswari, Secretary (School Education & Literacy), Smt. Anju Vaish,
Secretary (Higher Education), Shri R. P. Agrawal, our distinguished
National Awardees [...]

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Volume 2 Month 10 Day 29 – School Speech Topics

School speech topics can be hard to come up with. After all, they need to be appealing to students yet also engaging for the teacher (who, after all, controls the grade). The topic must be appropriate and easy to give a good speech on. Here’s a few speech topics for school.
 

Standardized testing. What does it [...]

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Volume 2 Month 10 Day 27 – The Wise Speech from Bill Gates

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality [...]

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Five minds for the future

Five Minds for the Future
By Professor Howard Gardner – COPYRIGHT Howard Gardner 2008
 
Note:  This paper was given as an oral presentation at the Ecolint Meeting in Geneva, January 13, 2008.  It has been edited only in the interest of clarity.
 
Introduction:
I am an admirer of the International Baccalaureate.  I consider IBO the source of strength in [...]