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Grubman was a math whiz in high school and was a member of the debate team, marching band and National Honor Society. He listened to heavy metal and at parties would rip phone books in half to impress the girls. Proud of his father's brief boxing career, he would often cock his arm and make ready to land a punch on your jaw, says a former classmate, Jacob Zamansky. Grubman's first job was in strategic planning at AT&T. He later became an analyst at PaineWebber but made his name at Salomon pounding the table for WorldCom...
...School, students must complete two semesters of field work—pre-practicum, which involves observing a teacher for six hours a week, and practicum, which is what Daniel is currently doing. When they apply for the program, students must specify the subject they want to teach—math, history, English, or science—and whether they want to be in a high school or a middle school. They are then matched up with a mentor teacher in one of four Boston public schools—Cambridge Rindge and Latin, South Boston High School, King Open Middle School...
...fact that I’m physically not ever on campus—I mean, thank God for my roommates or else I’d never see anyone.” At the same time, the students emphasize how much they enjoy getting away from Harvard. Ricketts observes math classes at South Boston High School each week and says, “I feel like at Harvard we talk about Boston but we really don’t know that much. It’s refreshing to leave Cambridge and explore another place.” Koski-Karrell notes...
Well actually that’s not true. I was born on November 28, which occasionally falls on Thanksgiving, though I can’t be bothered to do the math to see when or how often it does. (If you just did it in your head then you can bite my turkey-tasting ass.) The point is that on this 381st celebration of Thanksgiving, I will turn...
...test of one’s ability to be creative, engaging to an audience and in control. Johnson explains, “They’re really looking for people who believe and are optimistic that all children can achieve.” So although TFA does recruit for math- or science-related concentrations, that ultimately has no bearing on who they actually hire...