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...became a teacher and worked in just about every position in education--teacher's aide; staff developer; math coach; and sixth-grade teacher in a self-contained class where he taught social studies, science, math and English language arts. Along the way, he was recruited to work in some of the city's best schools. But when offered a position in his old neighborhood, he realized that that was where he could make the biggest difference. "We each have a responsibility and an obligation to better the lives of as many people as we can," says Kennedy. "There is greatness...
...Granville T. Woods School for Science and Technology, known as MS 584, in one of the poorest and most isolated areas of Crown Heights. At a time when principals were being held increasingly accountable for student test scores and only 18% of the entering students were reading at grade level, it was among the city's most difficult assignments...
...these efforts seem to be making a difference in the lives of the children. School is safe, attendance is high, and a sense of community is growing. The school graduated its first eighth-grade class last spring...
...teenager who has been in sex-education courses at school since the third grade. Most of the young people I know have developed liberal ideas about sex, even though the school programs have, if anything, discouraged promiscuous sex and so-called immoral sexual behavior. Our attitudes about sex do not come from teachers; they come from society and our peers. We are influenced by the media's portrayal of sex as being glamorous and by the opinions of other teenagers. The best thing teachers can do is give us the biological facts, teach us about sexually transmitted diseases, then stand...
...article "Nakasone's World-Class Blunder" [EDUCATION, Oct. 6] contains errors. First, you claim that H.H. Goddard "insisted that on the basis of IQ scores vast numbers of Italian, Jewish and Russian immigrants were 'high-grade defectives' or morons. "Goddard never wrote any such thing. What he wrote was that of those immigrants screened at Ellis Island who were suspected of being "feeble-minded" on the basis of casual observations, a majority scored in the "feeble-minded" range on certain verbal and performance tests. They were never claimed by Goddard to be a representative sample of any national group...