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Want to teach but have no credential? asks the headline on a poster inside the Los Angeles unified school district's crash recruiting center. "Relax," continues the pitch. "We can help you get your teaching credential while you work full time as a junior or senior high school teacher...
...many cases declining pupil populations have prevented a teacher shortage. The city of Modesto, Calif., this spring set up eleven recruiting centers in hotels from Massachusetts to Washington State. Georgia, although its shortage is still minor, has imported math and science teachers from West Germany. The Houston independent school district foraged all spring for 500 teachers as far north as Vancouver, only to discover that more than 100 new vacancies had opened while the bountymen were out hunting. In fact, Houston recruiters are even looking to Ireland, which is emerging as a source of Spanish-speaking bilingual teachers because...
...pictures of scorched children and hairless women lying listless in hospital beds. Far more affecting is a three-to-five-minute 16-mm movie in Kawamoto's possession that shows Hiroshima in 1936: men who still dressed in kimono; elegant women scooting rapidly through the streets of a shopping district; cherry blossoms; a fleeting glimpse of the Atomic Bomb Dome as it looked originally: fat, Victorian and official...
After 13 years of battling over desegregation, Boston's school system still chafes under federal-court jurisdiction. That acrimonious situation headed toward a solution this month, when U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr., 65, made known that he would return control of the public schools to the city's 13-member school committee. At the news, a former Massachusetts judge commented, "He couldn't be leaving soon enough...
...schools. Garrity has decided that the school committee has the "willingness and ability" to run a desegregated system. But he has set such stringent conditions for his withdrawal that one education official described the plans as "Garrity-plus." Among them: a school's racial mix must reflect a district's population ratios, and the percentage of black staff must be roughly equivalent to the 23% black population of the city...