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...York City public-school students who reported that six months later, they still frequently thought about the Sept. 11 attacks...
...harsh calculus of public-school budgets, that means electives like PE or chorus could be the first to go. In inner-city schools, the cuts can be even less kind. For Deborah Holmes, the principal at Jefferson Junior High School, just a few blocks southwest of the U.S. Capitol, the choice was between buying more computers and doing something to raise her students' scores. In the end, Holmes opted for a $21,000 contract with The Princeton Review, reasoning that her students would become more computer literate by spending much of their time taking online practice exams...
...though, the requirements, and the thinking behind them, are changing. Like the best sports coaches, more school recruiters and principals are drafting prospects who show strong ability and attitude--and who can learn any skills that they lack. States and school districts are aggressively recruiting new teachers from among the ranks of accountants, doctors, lawyers, retired military officers and other career switchers, who now represent about 5% of the nation's 2.8 million public-school teachers. The schools promise to turn these professionals into educators in less than two months after intensive coaching in methods of teaching and maintaining discipline...
...though, the requirements, and the thinking behind them, are changing. Like the best sports coaches, more school recruiters and principals are drafting prospects who show strong ability and attitude - and who can learn any skills that they lack. States and school districts are aggressively recruiting new teachers from among the ranks of accountants, doctors, lawyers, retired military officers and other career switchers, who now represent about 5% of the nation's 2.8 million public-school teachers. The schools promise to turn these professionals into educators in less than two months after intensive coaching in methods of teaching and maintaining discipline...
This event, like so much of Ellison's life these days, can be read two ways. On the one hand, it is a grand gesture: the donation by Oracle of 1,100 New Internet computers to the Dallas public-school system. But it is also a flagrant attempt to hype a pet project of his: the inexpensive network computer. This particular model is built and sold by NIC, a company partly owned by--who else?--Ellison. Later, on a CNN feed from a high school social-studies classroom against a backdrop of a few of the donated computers, Ellison will...