Word: teach
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...native Minnesotan, Donovan was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Minnesota and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He was lured away from his plans to teach history by the better starting pay of a $25-a-week reporting job on the Washington Post. (Said the Post in an editorial last week: "Mr. Donovan... is a man of such enormous professional talent and personal distinction that whatever he does for the Carter presidency is bound to be a plus.") Donovan covered the State Department, Capitol Hill and the White House before serving as an intelligence officer...
...Eliot Wigginton, 36, began in 1966 with 140 children and $440 in donations from the residents of Rabun Gap in the north Georgia mountains. Wigginton, who grew up in Georgia and was educated at Cornell, wanted to teach young people about the glories of the area's independent mountain folk. He named the project Foxfire, after a Georgia lichen that glows in the dark, and set up a course of study, which includes photography, folklore and music. The students interview elderly people about their lives and write stories for the Foxfire magazines and books. Published by Doubleday since...
...compromise marriage law was designed to be more acceptable to Kenya's parliamentarians, the majority of whom are polygamists. Even so, many of them had serious reservations. Kimunai arap Soi, an M.P. representing one of the Kalenjin tribal areas, charged that the bill would make it impossible to teach wives "manners" by beating them. "Even slapping your wife would be out," he fumed. He was eloquently supported by another male member, Wafula Wabuge, who said that African women loved their men more when they were slapped, "for then the wives call you darling." Grace On-yango, one of four...
...funds from a $4.1 million grant from the U.S. Head Start program. Before such programs existed, says TMC Executive Director Oscar Villarreal, "the infant children had no one to care for them when they were sick. They were left with ten-or twelve-year-old siblings who could not teach them very well because they just didn't know much...
...small yellow school bus with Texas license plates arrives as early as 6:45 a.m. at the Kincaid farm in Palmyra and whisks a load of children to the church, where they are fed breakfast. Those who need it are given a bath, then the teachers read stories and teach them songs. "We make home visits and try to build a relationship with the parents," says Head Start's Juan Cortes, an ex-migrant who spent his first summer in the fields at the age of four. Still, Cortes acknowledges, few parents visit their children's class, except...