Word: excels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
More inspirational crusade than a program of substance ("I am a preacher, not an educator," Jackson readily admits), PUSH-EXCEL exemplifies Jackson's belief that black students cannot just blame poor schools if they do not learn...
...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...
...certain qualities that would make him a good candidate," says James Compton, president of the Chicago Urban League, "but my own preference would be for a professional politician." Jackson also has a reputation as a sloppy money manager. Last month an unflattering interim federal audit of PUSH-EXCEL, a motivational program for high school students, surfaced in Chicago, raising questions about the program's use of $1.7 million in federal funds...