Word: teacher
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...reaction to our music, which is 'What?' " No matter what its inspiration or explanation, Was (Not Was) is certainly an improvement on Fagenson (not Weiss), which, while never a consideration, would at least have been straightforward. Don Fagenson and David Weiss first met in eighth grade outside a gym teacher's office, where they awaited disciplining. Don's parents were both teachers. David's mother was an actress, and his father was a radio and TV actor who worked with everyone from Orson Welles to Soupy Sales and appeared for a decade as Santa in the Detroit Thanksgiving parade...
When he returned to the U.S., he became Whitney Young's protege at the Urban League, where he ran a job-training program. At night he attended law school at St. John's University. There he forged a bond with a teacher the other students considered intimidating, Mario Cuomo. "We had an instant rapport," says Brown. Cuomo, who endorsed Brown's candidacy early on, agrees. When Vernon Jordan took over the Urban League in 1971, he persuaded Brown to move to Washington to take over the organization's office there...
...trigger of his rifle, then reloaded, raking the yard with at least 106 bullets. As children screamed in pain and fear, Purdy placed a 9-mm pistol to his head and killed himself. When the four- minute assault was over, five children, ages 6 to 9, were dead. One teacher and 29 pupils were wounded. Those killed were all Southeast Asians, from war-refugee groups that make up 71% of the school's enrollment...
Gardner, an author of books and essays on math, also puts much of the blame on teachers -- particularly at the elementary level, where many classrooms are run by people with little or no math training. "When a class is taught by a teacher not interested in the subject," he notes, "then the class is bored also." Another setback for numbers proficiency, Gardner argues, was infatuation with the new math that emerged during the 1950s. Says he: "Youngsters were learning all kinds of advanced things, but not basic math...
Philosopher, lawyer, teacher, former tackle for the Williams College "Ephmen" and compulsive thrasher in smooth waters, Bennett has clapped a restrainer on his formidable tongue until the confirmation hearings. They are expected to go his way, despite a legion of ruffled academics left from his 3 1/2 iconoclastic years at Education. He suggested, among other things, that tony universities were not giving students their big money's worth...