Word: professionalism
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Is Brooke Shields over the hill? Hardly, but Monica Schnarre could make a college undergraduate feel ancient. At the barely ripe young age of 14, the 6-ft. brunette from Canada last week beat out 22 models Ashlock: living legend from 22 countries (including China) to become what the promoters...
Joseph Kraft died on Jan. 10. Two hundred newspapers lost a column, one of the best in the nation. A clear light in journalism for 35 years, Joe wrote books, editorials and long reportorial analyses, but his regular "beat" consisted of producing two or three columns a week on national...
Outrageous? Yes. Ridiculous? In many cases. Unreasonable? Certainly. And yet the examples represent just a small sampling from a rising flood of problems growing out of what has become a new national crisis. Given the litigious nature of American society these days, just about any kind of business, profession or...
The test, mandated by the Texas legislature in 1984 as part of a broad program to improve the state's public schools, was not terribly difficult. (Sample item: spotting the misspelled word "discused" in a paragraph.) But teachers reacted with outrage. "It's the wrong instrument to measure my ability...
Though most educators see nothing wrong with a competency exam for new teachers, the objections of the Texas veterans found widespread support. Gregory Anrig, president of Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., refused to let Texas administer his company's National Teachers Examination, which is given to new teachers in...