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Long journey home: with mixed feelings, the families of the Frontier House experiment return to the 21st century, a whole lot thinner and a good bit wiser After spending nearly half a year in a smoky, mouse-infested, frontier log cabin without electricity or toilets that flush--poised at the edge of their ......(Continue Reading) 1900 House Frontier House - Whole earth: cool tools The premise of this first reality-TV program is brilliant. Take an ordinary middle-class family of the year 2000 and make them live for six months like ......(Continue Reading)EnTherm approaches house as a whole SYRACUSE - Richard Kornbluth realizes houses are not simply boxes to be heated or cooled. "They are complex systems of interacting parts and must be treated ......(Continue Reading)Q: Is phonics-rich instruction, as pushed by the White House, needed in U.S. classrooms? NO: The whole-language method really works and has led to a golden Byline: Ken Goodman, SPECIAL TO INSIGHT The readers of Insight probably will not agree with me about the merits of whole language and its application ......(Continue Reading)Q: Is phonics-rich instruction, as pushed by the White House, needed in U.S. classrooms? YES: The fad of whole-language teaching has led to widespread Byline: C. Bradley Thompson, SPECIAL TO INSIGHT For the last 20-plus years America's schools have been a battleground in an all-out war over how to ......(Continue Reading)
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