Word: job
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Some state teachers' unions have opposed legislation aimed at luring job switchers, arguing that it allows unqualified people into the classroom. However, many mid-careerists charge that the traditional system is too rigid, forcing even seasoned professionals to take two years of what New Jersey Education Commissioner Saul Cooperman calls "Mickey Mouse" education courses. Both camps agree on one point. Says Katherine Foster, 34, who gave up dentistry for the classroom to become a ninth- and tenth-grade teacher in San Benito County, Calif.: "Teaching is more rewarding than anything I ever imagined...
...21st century the U.S. work force will need fewer strong backs and more strong minds. To prepare for that future, local businesses are pairing up with local schools to provide students with training and jobs. Since 1974 St. Louis County has had a program, now expanded to Kansas City, that gives high school seniors two hours of instruction each day at area work sites. About half the participating students, who this year number 100, get jobs after graduation; most of the rest go on to college. California has had a similar program since 1983 that involves some 35,000 students...
...proposals place the burden of monitoring and disciplining researchers on universities, said Newburgh. "The NIH would step in only if it determined the university was not doing the job," she said...
Marie Manna, one of the leaders of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), which is currently finalizing its contract with Harvard, said the union had not asked Taylor to leave the position, but that added "support staff members were uncomfortable when she took the job, given the anti-union campaign...
...Huschle stated to me that if he decided not to work for a year after he graduated from college, he would not be concerned about hurting his later job prospects by not being in touch with job recruiters at school because he knew that he could contact graduate club members through the directory to get a job," Freeland says...