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...work” in a time of crisis.THE HISTORYTeach for America is a non-profit organization that, according to its mission statement, works to “eliminate educational inequality by enlisting our nations most promising future leaders in the effort.”TFA trains and oversees a core of high-achieving recent college graduates to work as public school teachers in under-served rural and urban districts for a minimum of two years. Participants have the option of receiving funding for graduate degrees in education while they are teaching.The organization was founded by Wendy Kopp...
...modules” become parodies of themselves. The idea of learning about the “arrivals” inherent in English writing is stimulating, but unless one is able to weed through terms like “embarrassment of riches” in order to reach the core of the module, the effect is lost. The same critique applies to the “Diffusions” module, whose description declares that students will ponder, “What does it mean to belong to a where, and what are the signs, and forms, and idioms, of belonging?...
...appreciate that many of these measures will be difficult for the faculty and we do not take these actions lightly. Nonetheless, we will do all we can to ensure that our core mission of teaching and research can continue to thrive even in these difficult times...
...assisting the U.S.'s ousting of the Taliban in 2001 are now deeply entrenched in Afghan society. They have positions in government, in the police, in the army and in business. Though they have largely relinquished their tanks and heavy artillery, most have been able to maintain their core militias in the form of private security companies, political parties or loose business networks. Allegations of land grabs, rape, murder and kidnapping are rife. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Afghan human rights organizations such as Samimi's have documented extortion rackets run by former warlords and militia-run prisons where...
Philippa G. Eccles ’09, another inductee and a History of Art and Architecture concentrator, attributed a part of her success to her enjoyment of both Core and concentration courses...