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...classrooms--where 3 million students are learning English as a new language, where 35% are minorities and 11% are challenged or impaired in some way--are probably not like those of your childhood. To help you find out if you suit the new classrooms, particularly those in inner cities, Martin Haberman, distinguished professor in the school of education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, has developed an interview process that 50 school districts use to select effective teachers. You can take a written version of the test at home...
Your odds improve greatly if you plan to teach math, science or foreign languages or if you are an ESL (English as a second language), bilingual or special-education teacher. It will also help if you are a person of color or if you are applying to an inner-city or a rural school. Being older may actually be in your favor. The average age of U.S. teachers is 44, and 25% of them are over 50. Michael McKibbin, who sees many career changers in the California internships he supervises, recognizes that teachers need enormous energy and wisdom. "I always...
...this really be the stodgy old Washington Ballet? None other. Fluctuating Hemlines, a sharply observed portrait of a group of young people who peel off their outer garments and expose their inner selves, is the work of Septime Webre, the new artistic director. Since arriving in the nation's capital last fall, he has transformed this unadventurous company into a lively laboratory for his pop-flavored style of classical dancemaking and brought an equally unusual approach to company management, which seeks to make perhaps the whitest of art forms relevant to a racially fissured community...
...severing its traditional roots? Webre is drawing sellout crowds by cannily juxtaposing blue-chip masterpieces by George Balanchine, Paul Taylor and Antony Tudor with new works by such younger choreographers as Nacho Duato and Dwight Rhoden. And his aggressive outreach efforts include Dance D.C., an ambitious pilot program of inner-city public school dance classes, and low-priced "Beer and Ballet" previews held at the company's studios in northwest Washington...
...race for the New York's Senate seat is now between a first lady from Washington (or Illinois or Arkansas) and a New Yorker not many New Yorkers have even heard of before. New York mayor Rudy Giuliani finally heeded the advice of probably just about everyone but his inner pugilist and on Friday dropped out of the race he'd never even officially entered. Citing his prostate cancer, and not his marital chaos, as a force that had made him reassess his priorities, an emotional Giuliani waxed philosophical for a while - "I used to think the core...