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Nancie Atwell
Nancie Atwell is an American educator who in 2015 became the first recipient of the Varkey Foundation#Global Teacher Prize, Global Teacher Prize, a $1million award presented by the Varkey Foundation to "one innovative and caring teacher who has made an inspirational impact on their students and their community". Career A teacher since 1973, Atwell started her career in western New York, but found traditional teaching methods constraining.Gambino, Lauren"The world's best teacher lives in rural Maine and doesn't care about test scores" ''The Guardian''. 23 March 2015. In 1990 Atwell founded the nonprofit Center for Teaching and Learning, a school at Edgecomb in rural Maine where students read an average of 40 books a year, choose which books they read, and write prolifically. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
