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Kennedy credits his team of veteran educators, young teachers, Teach for America recruits and a parent coordinator. "No one can work in isolation," he says. "My job is to get voices from the community and to keep the team motivated. I see our work like a chessboard. Each child is our king. We have to work to protect him and checkmate the forces of failure. This world is so harsh to children. I see myself as the keeper of the dream that is in every child, and I know we can succeed. That is my blessed hope...
...behavior. Our attitudes about sex do not come from teachers; they come from society and our peers. We are influenced by the media's portrayal of sex as being glamorous and by the opinions of other teenagers. The best thing teachers can do is give us the biological facts, teach us about sexually transmitted diseases, then stand back and let us make our own decisions. Janet J.K. Jones Toledo...
More important, Perot demanded much greater autonomy for EDS than Smith was prepared to grant. When Perot became impatient with the pace of change at GM and began carping publicly about the need to "nuke the GM system" and "teach an elephant to tapdance," the clash of personalities and cultures became increasingly intolerable. Ominously for Smith, the dispute threatened to escalate into a battle for control of GM. Says a source close to the conflict: "The question for the board was how it could have good corporate governance with two chief executive officers...
...York City Teaching Fellows In the spring of 2000, the NYC Teaching Fellows program was launched to address the most severe teacher shortage in New York City's public schools in decades. The Fellowship recruits mid-career professionals, recent graduates, and even retirees to teach in high-need schools in the nation's largest school system. Today, the NYC Teaching Fellows program is the largest alternative certification program in the country and among the most selective. For more information, visit www.nycteachingfellows.org...
...task force was “unequivocal” in recommending that all professors who teach classes over a certain size be required to submit themselves for CUE evaluation, she said...