Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial court did not ask whether, or how, a physician with conscientious scruples against abortion, and the testing and counseling that may inform an abortion decision, can discharge his professional obligation without engaging in procedures that his religious or moral principles condemn . . . The court does not hold that some or all physicians must make such a choice between rendering services that they morally condemn and leaving their profession in order to escape malpractice exposure. The defensive significance, for example, of timely disclosure of professional limits based on religious or moral scruples, combined with timely referral to other physicians...
Many educators hope that TFA's unorthodox approach will boost the low status of the profession and help alleviate the growing teacher shortage. According to the American Federation of Teachers, U.S. schools will have to hire 1.8 million new teachers by 1997. The need is especially acute in inner cities...
But some traditionally trained teachers are highly critical of TFA. "They are probably good people," says Jaime Escalante, the East Los Angeles calculus teacher who served as the inspiration for the movie Stand and Deliver. "But the time ((for training)) is not enough." Some are galled that TFA has received...
Perhaps the biggest question mark hanging over the program is whether TFA teachers will stay in the profession once their two years are up. Some youngsters clearly see the experience as a way station before graduate school or a higher-paying career. TFA supporters downplay the issue of retention. They...
Hundreds of Teach for America recruits are preparing to go to work in the nation's schools. Will they help rejuvenate a dispirited profession? Some educators are skeptical.