Word: careers
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BOSTON--A funny thing happened along the road to Bill Cleary's 300th career victory. Harvard won the Beanpot...
...300th career victory? Cleary could not have cared less if last night's triumph were his first. As the final seconds ticked off the clock, Cleary stood on the bench waving his arms. When the gun sounded, he joined his players in raucous celebration...
Some states run such courses themselves, while others encourage colleges and universities to tailor them to the needs of career changers, who often cannot afford to forfeit full-time income. At the California State University at Dominguez Hills, one-half of the students at the Graduate School of Education are job switchers. One reason: the program provides salaried internships...
Proponents of this trend say career changers are often more motivated and more effective than teachers who took the conventional path to the blackboard. "These are a different type of teacher," says Dianne Worthy, South Carolina's supervisor of teacher education. "They bring more life experience with them...
Many of them, in fact, make considerable sacrifices to move into the classroom. When Tom Carlyle decided to become a teacher, he quit his job as a manager in a Manhattan publishing firm and invested $10,000 in a one-year program for career changers at Harvard's School of Education. Since 1986, he has been teaching high school math in the New York City public schools. His $30,000 salary is $5,000 less than he made in the private sector -- but $9,000 more than he would have made teaching math five years ago. Carlyle...