Word: pupills
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...states, such as Florida and Texas, are trying to solve their needs in part by granting alternative certification to college graduates without formal teacher training. California granted emergency credentials to more than 4,000 instructors last year. Sunbelt schools are recruiting in northern states, where in many cases declining pupil populations have prevented a teacher shortage. The city of Modesto, Calif., this spring set up eleven recruiting centers in hotels from Massachusetts to Washington State. Georgia, although its shortage is still minor, has imported math and science teachers from West Germany. The Houston independent school district foraged all spring...
...informal financial adviser, Warren Buffett, has said was key to solving California's fiscal crisis. "We looked at that," Schwarzenegger told me, "but we decided that California had a spending problem, not a revenue problem." This seemed palpably ridiculous, given that California is 42nd in the nation in per-pupil education spending. But the Governor wasn't budging, and our conversation drifted into his standard riffs, some of them quite entertaining, about the "dinosaurs" in Sacramento who introduce bills about "plastic surgery for dogs and where you can park ice cream trucks and condom distribution in prisons" but who refuse...
...first scene, we are greeted by a Gandhi doppelgänger who puts Ben Kingsley to shame, but whose finest rhetoric (“my love is soft as a blossom and hard as a rock”) cannot get his errant pupil back on track...
...first scene, we are greeted by a Gandhi doppelgänger who puts Ben Kingsley to shame, but whose finest rhetoric (“my love is soft as a blossom and hard as a rock”) cannot get his errant pupil back on track...
...easiest thing for him to start coaching the No. 1 in the world," he says. "I will lose matches, and I don't think we should start blaming him, because he won't have done anything wrong. He's only trying to help." Still, the pupil's rivals will be hoping that the newest member of Team Federer is no help...