Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program is designed to attract more minority students but also to reduce the practice of accepting students conditional on two years of work experience. However, any admitted student may voluntarily defer matriculation as in the past...
...districts on reading test scores: only 18.5% of students read at grade level or above. Last year the district ranked 15th in the city, and 48.5% of its students were up to par in reading. Alvarado's success was due in part to his ability to attract bright and dedicated teachers and his willingness to take risks with new programs. Says Alvarado: "My view has always been that you increase expectations and you support students at the same time...
Some 33 states have passed, or are considering, incentive programs to attract students and qualified teachers to science labs and math classrooms. In Kentucky, 95 students last year received up to $2,500 toward their college costs; if they spend one year as math or science teachers in a Kentucky public school, one year of their loan will be canceled. At least half a dozen states are reconsidering their certification procedures to emphasize knowledge of subject matter over teaching methodology. Such changes could open the teaching field, largely dominated by education majors, to graduates with liberal arts degrees...
...trying to send more talent the way of the public schools. Faith Dunne, head of Dartmouth's education department, has helped put together a 15-member Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education, made up of 15 top private colleges that will use exchange programs to pool resources and attract able students. Says Dunne: "I think we could have better teachers if we got to the point where influential professors would stop discouraging their students from going into elementary and secondary school education...
...moral serenity that approach star quality. But for most of his career Kingsley has been a supporting player of the highest distinction with Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company-a satellite. The character actor cannot simply put himself on display as a star can, assured that his radiance will attract every eye. He must be a wily mendicant for the audience's attention, making up in craft what he lacks in glamour. He cannot just play a scene; he has to steal it. In a decade at the R.S.C., Kingsley proved himself the deftest of second-story...