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...last year. Sunbelt schools are recruiting in northern states, where in many cases declining pupil populations have prevented a teacher shortage. The city of Modesto, Calif., this spring set up eleven recruiting centers in hotels from Massachusetts to Washington State. Georgia, although its shortage is still minor, has imported math and science teachers from West Germany. The Houston independent school district foraged all spring for 500 teachers as far north as Vancouver, only to discover that more than 100 new vacancies had opened while the bountymen were out hunting. In fact, Houston recruiters are even looking to Ireland, which...
...long last too, some states and cities are digging down for serious money to dangle at prospects who have expertise in special subjects. New York is offering $3,000 college scholarships and graduate fellowships of up to $4,000 to head off possible spot shortages in math and science, provided the recipients will teach in the New York school system. Florida is handing out $4,000 yearly scholarships to college students in return for each year of teaching in subjects where there is a shortage. Houston has created salary add-ons that will allow top teachers to come...
...grew up in a housing project in Elmira, N.Y., lived on food stamps for a time and thought about being a math teacher after seeing her father, a surveyor, lay out streets. But Eileen Collins went into the Air Force instead and in 1999 became the first woman to command a shuttle mission--on the Columbia, which broke apart in midair less than four years later, killing its crew of seven. As soon as next month, Collins, 48, will command the shuttle Discovery in the first U.S. manned space flight since the Columbia disaster brought such missions to a halt...
...doesn’t give off the Applied Math character,” Klimkiewicz continues...
...International Peace Jeffry Frieden and truly excellent TFs provide four, count ’em, four theoretical approaches to understanding the interaction between politics and economics on a global scale. What I really loved about this class is that you didn’t need a strong background in math or economics to take it, but students still read contemporary scholarship, not a Readers’ Digest-like summary of it in a textbook...