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Just as the homosexual community adopted the word “gay,” some atheists have employed a similar method to educate others and improve the image of atheists in society. A few years ago, Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell, of Sacramento, California started the Brights Movement, an...
The poster and the recruiting center reflect a surprising trend: a teacher shortage that promises to get worse, not only in Los Angeles but throughout the state of California and some other parts of the country. Within the next few weeks Los Angeles must find 2,500 new instructors for...
While responsibilities and demands have multiplied, teachers have seen little increase in the financial or moral support they need to do the job. Overcrowded classes, inadequate or outdated equipment and long hours are common. At the same time, in a panicked effort to improve their schools, many states and localities...
Reflecting on the Secretary's overall performance, Illinois Democrat Paul Simon of the Senate's Education, Arts and Humanities Subcommittee gives him a C-minus for his sophomore year. Notes an unimpressed Mary Futrell, president of the National Education Association: "He seems more interested in sparring with us than in...
Futrell, whose NEA is the nation's predominant teachers' union, approved of the teacher-centered thrust of the report. But, though a task-force member, she expressed doubts about the pay system and the lead-teacher concept. She feared that they might "become another merit pay or career ladder plan...