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...teacher rather than grand programs can make the biggest difference. Escalante, 51, a Bolivian immigrant who arrived in the U.S. speaking no English, is chairman of the math department at Garfield High School in the east Los Angeles barrio. With his support, 18 students decided to take the advanced placement calculus test, given to only 2.7% of college-bound seniors by the Educational Testing Service. Drilling them two hours a day after school and assigning four hours' worth of problems for every Saturday, Escalante mounted a 35-week effort that paid off when all 18 passed. Escalante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Low-Tech Teaching Blues | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

With top starting salaries at 543,000, students are signing up tfor an average at 14 interviews each, June Thompson, director of placement at the school said this week. But for those graduating high in then class, the problem may be deciding between one dizzying offer and the next...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Prestigious Firms Court Students | 10/29/1982 | See Source »

Almost all of the recruiters visiting this month represent private corporate firms, which naturally emphasize the financial rewards they offer to new lawyers said Harvey Giwnn an assistant in the placement office...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Prestigious Firms Court Students | 10/29/1982 | See Source »

...addition to the discouraging competition for these jobs. Harvard's strength in teaching corporate law and the high pressure recruiting process itself tend to push people toward careers related to business, placement officers and students agreed...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Prestigious Firms Court Students | 10/29/1982 | See Source »

Career Insights is a new publication devoted to improving the quality of this sort of interchange. Its editors have solicited advice from dozens of successful men and women and printed it up, with lots of recruiting advertisements, in a glossy 100-page magazine (which Harvard's placement office distributed at a recent well-attended exposition.)The result, an introductory note promises," will help you tackle a job search--if that's the next step you've chosen--or just figure out what you want...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Job Hunting | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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