So sad but strange also that I am pretty close to where it all happened. My take is that like many students all over the world under pressure he freaked out. Perhaps, he wanted to study English but was under pressure to study engineering -Thats why he went to …
Atlast I have found a Q & A for minority Hindu school students – which parents should instruct their kids -to fend off queries about their faith from curious (and even unfriendly majority peers etc). Mr A: Are you a Buddhist? Mr B: Hey no! He is … Mr A:…
http://www.gatesfoundation.org March 7, 2007U.S. Senate Committee Hearing Washington, D.C. Written Testimony by Bill Gates, co-chair Editor's note: Bill Gates was invited to provide testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on March 7, 2007. Below is an excerpt of his written testimony as it relates…
From last Sunday: Just after watching the Oscars and seeing Water, Pursuit of Happyness and Superman go down while the Queen (of England), The King (of Scotland) and etc etc reign supreme – I feel still thrilled by the days events which seem more dramatic than any of the…
http://www.ashanet.org/campaigns/rte/ While discussing the Right to Education Bill pending in Indian Parliament at www.ashanet.org/dc today -I was amazed to note that even in heart of Delhi the govt schools REFUSE!! to enroll students. Refuse to enroll — thats right!! On the one hand there is great talk…
US Congress & Arjun think sam; Bush vouches for good tutoring http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/US_Congress__Arjun_think_sam_Bush_vouches_for_good_tutoring/articleshow/1560755.cmsURMI A GOSWAMITIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2007 04:12:47 AM] NEW DELHI: When it comes to school education, the US Congress and India’s ministry of human resource development seem to be on the same page. US president George…
Hi, Here is something about where I work www.potomactutors.com . It is a very international environment with collleagues representing all parts of the globe and faiths. In a team of about ten staff members (incl part time) we have Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and atheists (perhaps) and people…
Hi,In keeping with the trend of students from remotedisadvantaged regions slowly overtaking those frommore endowed , “modern” societies –thanks to globallyimproved communication & transmission ofknowledge/transportation of goods/people.In India: students from educationally backwardRajasthan (Kota), UP (Lucknow), Bihar and Assam etcare slowly overtaking students from Delhi and othermetros in IIT, AIMS and…
Hi, I took the CLEP exam this friday for Precalculus and got 88% (71/80) in it. But it made me more satisfied than getting 98% (79/80) in Algebra exam in Dec.The reason is that Precalculus needed use of online graphin calculator (link below) and I had never used any…
I cleaned classrooms too at Harvard –but not to please my profs but to earn money to stay alive. I was the only graduate student member (perhaps) of Harvard Dorm Crew http://dormcrew.com/termtime/index.html Good that some Indian profs have become professional enough to keep time-sheets of the sweeping work done…