http://eslcity.com/english/blog2 Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:17:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One must wonder what type of sexual syndrome would cause an adult woman teacher to have sex with a minor student. This week, Allenna Williams Ward, 23, a South Carolina teacher was arrested and charged with sexual misconduct with at least four students ... http://eslcity.com/english/blog2/?p=150 Remember the good old days when kids would yell, ?śFight! Fight!??and everyone would run to watch because it was something rare? Today the call is, ?śRocket launchers! Uzis! Swat teams!??and no one runs because there?™s nothing rare about it. Kids take violence for granted. Thirty kids in math class, someone ... http://eslcity.com/english/blog2/?p=149 One can learn from Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” that our times are radically different than 10 years ago. Children are inheriting a world and way of living that is becoming unrecognizable. The awesome power and potential of the Internet and the new technology being ... http://eslcity.com/english/blog2/?p=148 ?śGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!?? The Emma Lazarus poem engraved on ... http://eslcity.com/english/blog2/?p=147 Hats off to several universities who have finally entered the Twenty-First Century. The United States has more than three thousand colleges and universities. Most require high school students to take an admissions test, either the SAT or the ACT. But now ... http://eslcity.com/english/blog2/?p=146 At last, TOEFL is finally waking up and discovering that English is a spoken tongue, not just one that is written and heard. “It really is. We’ve spent about 10 years developing the test, and we’ve changed the theoretical underpinning of ... http://eslcity.com/english/blog2/?p=145 The average new teacher today makes just under $30,000 a year, which may not look too bad for a twentysomething with no mortgage and no kids. But soon enough the newbies realize that they can make more money and not work anywhere near as ... http://eslcity.com/english/blog2/?p=144 Buddy Bell is the manager of the Kansas City Royals, the worst team in the major leagues. Fortunately, Buddy doesn?™t work within the bureaucracy of the education system because with the record his team has produced, he wouldn?™t be paid a dime for this ... http://eslcity.com/english/blog2/?p=142 Hats off to several universities who have finally entered the Twenty-First Century. The United States has more than three thousand colleges and universities. Most require high school students to take an admissions test, either the SAT or the ACT. But now ... http://eslcity.com/english/blog2/?p=141 Almost half of new American teachers leave the profession within five years. Some get tired of large class sizes, limited planning time and support, and wishing to feel more valued by society. At the same time, experts say too many teachers lack the ... http://eslcity.com/english/blog2/?p=138