With no site chosen, no specific blueprints or cost estimates, the City of Philadelphia has in effect left itself vulnerable to spiraling costs by committing itself to building two new stadiums for the Eagles and the Phillies, says Temple's Michael Leeds , who teaches a course in The Economics of Sports. No stadium in my memory has come in under budget. Your kids may be working on projects for Women's History Month, but if they're like students in most K-6 schools, they're probably only studying the very famous of the famous women in history, says Temple education professor Christine Woyshner , a social studies specialist who studies how women's history is taught in schools. From what I've seen in curriculum guidelines and textbooks, in K-6 they're still just studying the famous firsts.
Most schools are at the point where they're adding in famous women.
They're studying great individual women. We need many histories, many multiple voices. We do best when we have a choral history. This Week at Temple . Four Temple faculty members, all nationally prominent for their work in cognitive development and child care, will join with Myth of the First Three Years author John Bruer in a symposium to address the implications his controversial new book could have on child development and public policy.