Word: professional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, Adams says that her father's profession cannot entirely account for her attraction to writing. Still, "it could account for my inability to learn Spanish," she quips.
It is little wonder, then, that educators worry about meeting the growing demand for teachers without drastically lowering the quality of teaching by hiring untrained recruits. In California more than 16,000 teachers were hired this year to accommodate state-initiated class-size reductions. Barbara Burch, former president of the...
The university faculty was worried about adding a fifth year, as competing education schools at nearby Xavier University and Northern Kentucky University could send their graduates out into the world after four years. But when Yinger took his five-year plan to high school students who had indicated an interest...
Among the most hotly debated issues in the profession these days is how to certify those who come to teaching from another career. Not surprisingly, CITE takes a more rigorous approach than most to "alternative certification," which is sometimes just "a fancy name for emergency licensing," says Karen Zumwalt, dean...
As a consequence, American journalism makes extravagant gestures of self-justification. Undergraduate journalism schools, for example, take four years to teach a skill--writing a news story--that most people, even undergraduates, can learn in a week; this perpetuates the fiction that journalism is a profession like lawyering rather than...