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Clinton is a former high school English teacher who became involved with comedy after members of a writing class she was taking dared her to take her humorous words to the stage. Since then, she has produced three albums: Making Light (1982), Making Waves (1984), and Kate Clinton Live at the Great American Music Hall...
When Patrick Purdy sprayed 100 or so bullets from a rapid-fire assault rifle into a crowd of children outside a Stockton, Calif., elementary school, killing five students and wounding 29 others and one teacher before dispatching himself with a pistol, he set off a national wave of horror. If tots playing innocently in a schoolyard at recess are no longer safe from heavily armed criminals and lunatics, who is? Many citizens concluded that no one is, and some on the West Coast resolved to take action. Their solution: to arm themselves for survival in a world seemingly gone...
...Toole, director Lean was an inspiring teacher. "David doesn't play God," he says, "or if he does, he shares his godship. There wasn't a setup that he didn't invite me to look at through the camera. When he was editing, I'd sit on the cutting-room floor, watching." And at the end of the adventure, "we were shooting the last scene, and I was sitting in the jeep with my feet in a bucket of ice because it was so hot. David just shot it and shot it and shot it. He was amazingly reluctant...
...Doss assembled his first Upward Bound squad. He and his wife Aline, a teacher, created tutorials focused specifically on college entrance requirements. In the CASE (College Academic Skills Enhancement) curriculum, students work with computers to boost SAT scores. The G.S.A. (Graduate Student Athlete) program helps recent graduates better their chances with choosier schools. With curriculum designs complete, Doss spent $25,000 of his own money for court and classroom rentals, team travel, textbooks, uniforms, computers and software...
...administrative costs to teach in Kenyan schools five hours a day for one year. Though most volunteers have no formal teaching experience, they work in community schools, called "Harambee," each of which can serve anywhere from 10 to 500 students. As many as 200 can pass through a single teacher's classroom...