Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unending and historically just. That is why the outcome of last week's election may pose not only a huge obstacle to diplomacy but also a threat to the political and humanitarian values that Israel and the U.S. have long shared -- and therefore to the essence of a very special relationship...
Pugliese is not shocked at the students' familiarity with drugs. In fact, their experiences seem innocent compared with those of the emotionally troubled kids he used to teach in special-education classes. One boy was left alone for days at a time while his mother disappeared into crack houses. A ten-year-old girl had been sexually abused by both her natural and foster parents...
...happen as easily at the blackboard as in the boardroom. "There are days when I go home with a migraine," says Chicago's Bertha. "It's a stressful job." Especially for those who work with learning- disabled or troubled children. Last spring, after three years of teaching special ed, Michael Pugliese asked to be reassigned to a regular classroom. "When you give your all, and there's no hope -- that's too much," he says...
...side are about ten "Chapter 1" children -- kids who need special attention. Because the district usually requires that everyone complete first grade before being evaluated as learning disabled, kids who have serious problems often limp through the first two years of school behind their more advanced peers...
...evening in early September, the special government phone rang. That surprised me. Everyone knew my father was not in Moscow. I heard an unfamiliar voice...