Word: phillipses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"It's a challenge," says IOP fellows coordinator Jennifer Phillips. "You need to go to a lot of different sources. We like to ask our network of former fellows, because they know about the experience."
McLaughlin and Phillips say that if politicians end up at the IOP after an electoral loss, it is not always their fame but rather their availability that first attracts KSG recruiters.
"Well, they're soul food," Phillips says. And with that the class starts spitting out associations, and she is at the board writing: tradition, culture, grandmother, filling, ample. Now everyone is paying attention.
Phillips, a sharecropper's daughter, is one of those magical teachers whom you could imagine in a hundred roles: talk- show host, prison warden, poet laureate, mayor of a midsize city. She teaches some of the best kids in the school and some of the worst, but like many teachers...
Like many teachers, Phillips has enormous control over what gets taught in her classroom and yet admits she is constrained when it comes to standards and expectations, like assigning homework. She guesses about 15% in her class actually do it, which means she can't base Tuesday's class on...