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...crop of Caribbean imports, and we’re not talking about bananas. Faced with a rapidly growing Latino population—30 percent of children in the city’s public schools are Hispanic—administrators have begun aggressively recruiting bilingual teachers from Puerto Rico to teach math, science, special education, and English as a second language. While the merits of bilingual education remain controversial, this recruitment is a positive step to help level the playing field for students and promote their success in the classroom. An article in the Boston Globe described the process of recruitment...
...Actually the process was much more asking us for more information about what we intended to do,” said Harvard Medical School professor Jon C. Clardy who will co-teach “Molecules of Life” with chemistry professor David R. Liu next fall. “They really didn’t make any suggestions...
...before he got into movies. Born in Sunrise, Minn., he got the theater bug at Illinois' Lake Forest College and stayed on to teach acting. From 1943 to 1946 he appeared in five Broadway plays, none lasting as long as four months, before coming to Hollywood. Director Henry Hathaway thought the actor too clean-cut to play Udo, but Darryl Zanuck, the boss of 20th Century-Fox, detected psychological turbulence beneath Widmark's stark, chiseled features, and the role was his, for life. It earned him the sobriquet "the face of film noir" and his only Oscar nomination...
...state high schools are "inadequate." A 2007 report by the OECD found that class sizes in British high schools are among the largest of 30 Western countries. NUT members have resolved to launch a campaign to push for smaller classes amid reports that teachers are struggling to teach as many as 55 pupils at one time. Average class sizes in the state sector are 26.2 compared to 10.7 in fee-paying schools. A report by the Sutton Trust, an educational charity, found that children from poorer homes who were given scholarships to fee-paying schools dramatically outperformed their peers...
...players in the league and probably one of the best players in the country,” MacDonald said. “The fact that he embraces the big game atmosphere and steps up to the whole new level, that’s something you can’t teach. He’s putting the team on his back, and it’s great to watch and be a part of.”When Harvard needed to break out of its mid-season slump, Taylor and Richter provided spark. Now that the Harvard must play mistake-free...