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Garvin's hard work has apparently impressed his teammates. Says sophomore quarterback Brian White. "He is a great competitor, and players, especially under-classmen, respect and madel themselves after his great desire to excel...
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...lack of talented and trained teachers is especially critical for math and science. Only 50% of such teachers are qualified in their subjects; most have been recycled from other areas. The undergraduates who excel at math or physics are smart enough to know that they can make considerably more money in industry than in teaching. From 1971 to 1980, the number of math teachers dropped 78% nationwide. Massachusetts universities produced only two graduates last June certified to teach chemistry on the high school level and only two who could teach physics. Berkeley, the proud flagship of the California system...
UNFORTUNATELY, the bitterness Brill subconsciously inherits from his childhood remains with him as a dominant--if not guiding--force. It is this undercurrent of anger--against the Nazis who slaughtered his family, his students who are hindered by mediocrity and, most important, at his own failure to excel--that gives the novel its emotional force. By bottling up the tension throughout the novel, Ozick heightens the impact of the climax, and makes Brill's epiphany about himself and the nature of his goals all the more painful...
...What does it matter if we have a new book or an old book if we open neither?" asks another of PUSH-EXCEL's epigrams. White educators, in particular, praised this self-help philosophy when Jackson began advocating it in 1976. By 1981 the program had been officially adopted by some 35 high schools in nine cities...