Word: professionalizing
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But if there are so few girls completing their education, how do you grow the next generation of female teachers? The first answer, says Atmar, is to remove all other impediments to girls' going to school. That means constructing new buildings so classes aren't held in the open. In...
If you were asked to guess John Andreas' profession, the words "fine-art auctioneer" would probably not come to mind. There's no bespoke suit or Etonian comportment. Instead, the burly Andreas sports cheap slacks, an off-the-rack polyester shirt and the mercantile mannerisms of a hard-bitten trader...
Nationwide, nearly half of new teachers leave the profession after five years. And for the roughly half a dozen undergraduates who receive the training the tools to teach, the transition from Harvard to the public school system is not always easy.
Over the past several years, Gutlerner has reached out to students from the Spoken Word Society and Cambridge One-to-One, a volunteer program based out of the Phillips Brooks House Association. He has also secured teaching internships for undergraduates who wish to pursue the profession but cannot enroll in...
Harvard students who go into teaching enter a profession in which 40 to 50 percent of new teachers leave within five years, according to a 2003 University of Pennsylvania study. But Parris, the physics teacher, said that students who complete the program will be long-lasting members of the teaching...