Word: recruited
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...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...
...takes on the news, an effort led by Anthony Spaeth, our Senior Writer/Editor who recently relocated to Hong Kong from New Delhi. Spaeth is a talented wordsmith and, no less critically for this job, one of the world's truly funny people. Assisting him is Brian Bennett, a recent recruit to TIME who, in just a few months on the job, has shown considerable flair in reporting, writing and finding the offbeat side of things...
...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...