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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late '40s and early '50s the computer industry was migratory, and my dad followed the movement. Within 13 years we moved from Cincinnati to Haddonfield, N.J., to Scottsdale, Ariz., to Saratoga, a suburb of San Jose. Just as I'd become accustomed to a school and a teacher and a best friend, the FOR SALE sign would dig into the front lawn and we'd be packing and off to some other state. I've always considered Arizona, where I was from nine to 16, my real home. For a kid, home is where you have your best friends...
...next 10 years we will be facing a teacher shortage, and following that, a shortage of school administrators. Offering them more money won't solve the problem, these people have to be recognized as playing an important social role," says Sarah L. Levine, director of the Institute...
...school has an average of 34 students per classroom, and we spend $3000 to $4000 per child. But I've met colleagues from affluent public schools where there are 18 students per teacher and $8000 is spent per child." She says...
...reasonably typical. They settled in New Jersey, where Carmencita had a sister. Juan, 49, a former storekeeper, got a job in an embroidery shop by saying that he could cut lace left-handed. In fact he is right-handed and had never cut lace. Carmencita, 47, a former teacher, worked in a handbag factory and cut insignia for uniforms on a piecework basis at home. "See this finger, see the callus I still have on it," she says proudly. The couple saved enough money to open two gift shops in Union City, living in an apartment over one. Like many...
Still, the process of assimilation is inexorable. "As these students become Americanized, they want to eat hot dogs and hamburgers and pizza," says Mark Palermo, a teacher at Chicago's Senn High School. "They want designer jeans and bicycles and calculators and digital watches. We're taught maybe it's an error to be materialistic, but material things are what they want...