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...teachers also need to be better prepared for the next millenium. I propose a new, national, federally-funded one-year program of special instruction--the Teacher Corps--to recruit the best and the brightest to enter teaching, to train them in the latest technologies and methodologies and to provide incentives to teach in underserved areas. We could better train 750,000 teachers over the next 10 years for $9 billion...
...first went to work for Bill Clinton in the fall of 1991. I had been a wary recruit. President Bush was riding high in the wake of the Gulf War; spending a year on the road in pursuit of a lost cause seemed like a waste. But I agreed to interview for the press secretary...
Fortunately for Hollywood, there are millions of attractive kids with a show-biz bug. "Casting directors used to recruit out of Yale drama school," says Konrad. "Now they go to small towns to watch high school plays." Or they receive a videotape from Ohio. "I'm kind of a fresh-face type of deal," says Holmes, asked to explain her appeal. "It's not that I'm sexy, I know that! Whatever. I know it won't last forever, but I'm glad to be in my teens and doing these things...
...they could recruit Mexican teachers, they reasoned, they could make Dalton more attractive for families to come across the border. The new teachers could help the Mexican kids learn English and the American kids learn Spanish...
...fetched to think that every child in Dalton could grow up not just bilingual but familiar with both cultures," says Erwin Mitchell, a local attorney who helped recruit 17 teachers from the University of Monterrey in Mexico, where carpet mogul Bob Shaw had a contact. Dalton used public funds, of which there is a big supply, to fly the teachers here, put them up in apartments and buy them all memberships in a health club...