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DIED. ANN LEYBOURNE BIEBEL, 53, retired Chicago cop who, as an off-duty recruit, shot and killed the city's infamous "Friday-night rapist" when he kidnapped her at gunpoint on New Year's Day in 1973; of cancer; in Muskegon, Mich...
...decided to recruit assistance from other graduates to begin working on his project. He sent out e-mails to friends and fellow alums of the Freshman Urban Program to tell them about the project. Soon after, Bar Am and a group of eight other undergraduates began holding meetings...
...faculty members continue to be recruited for a characteristic that doesn’t correlate with their teaching ability, the inscrutable selection criteria the admissions board uses to divine those fit to walk these overly hallowed halls produces students more equipped to learn, more hungry for knowledge and more self-sufficient. Although the selection process is far from perfect, I daresay that given the ever-expanding pool of driven students, the admissions committee can’t help but recruit better and better entering classes...
...York City had hoped to recruit 250 teachers through the alternative program, but after receiving more than 2,500 applications, it hired 350 last year. And the city expects to hire another 1,500 from the 5,500 applicants so far this year. In Massachusetts there were more than 900 applicants from around the country for the 105 alternative-certification teaching slots available last year. A Harvard University study of the Massachusetts bonus program concluded that many of the recipients "had been attracted by the accelerated route to certification rather than the $20,000 [bonus] the program offered...
Where money does matter is in training costs. New York City will pay about $25,000 to attract and train each of its fellows, including paying for each recruit to earn a master's in education. In this year's budget, Levy requested $50 million to expand the program. Cities including San Jose, Calif.; Denver; Baton Rouge, La.; and Kansas City, Mo. will have fast-track programs by the end of the year. Critics say that money would be better spent on bonuses to retain teachers already on staff, a fifth of whom leave the profession after three years...