Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Associates say that Feldstein enjoys chopping wood at his house in rural Vermont...
Staten is trying to rectify that. In the process of helping the bush vets, he has learned that theirs is a well-traveled path. When Roman Legionnaires returned from war, they were encouraged to settle in rural areas where they could decompress quietly. Japanese literature tells of samurai retiring to tend the "perfect garden." For many of these men, the island of Hawaii is that perfect garden, or as Staten calls it, the "gentle jungle." Says Cowan: "It is like a sanctuary. I trust my emotions and feelings here...
...know that they were looking for new directions in curriculum reform, and we wanted to show them Harvard's approach. Not incidentally, we were eager to hear more about the medical student's role in the Czechoslovak "Velvet Revolution." Their stories of building occupations, midnight postering and rural information campaigns are truly inspirational...
...basics, and it's working," says Stanton. "Our kids come out of the country school into the town high school way advanced. It's the one-on-one attention." This can cut both ways. Walter Lockie says he flunked math in his early high school years because his rural teacher for eight years was weak in that subject...
...turnover among rural teachers is high. Pine Grove went through four in 1978 alone, including one man who was bothered by the presence of mice. The educators must endure Montana's brutal winters in isolation, usually in tiny quarters attached to their schoolhouses. Nor is there much excitement in town except the Hell Creek Bar. Salaries are low. Savage, a widowed 22-year veteran of six rural Montana schools, makes $14,000 annually after six years at Pine Grove. "You've got to love what you're doing," she says. Then she rings her brass school bell out the front...