Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under the BU plan, a teacher in danger of dismissal is only entitled to a hearing held by the University--contrary to state law, which requires a two-thirds vote of the school committee as well," he said...
...also proposed a gradual increase in the annual school system budget from $16M to $21M in the next five years. This new monies will be primarily raised by the University itself through fund-raisers and will help cover the cost of higher teacher salaries, construction of a new high school and elementary school, as well as extensive renovations...
THIS unfair definition of intelligence seems to be partly rooted in childhood insecurities. It is difficult to forget those early years of school when the teacher passed back a corrected quiz and we students fidgeted nervously, anxious over whether we got a smiley-face sticker on the top of our paper. Then some students needed to reassure themselves that they had done well by asserting that someone else had done worse. Then the mean-spiritedness of childhood emerged, and words like "stupid" and "dummy" entered children's vocabularies. These insecurities followed us to adulthood, and our biases about intelligence remain...
...question should be in people's minds, `How come a person in so many respects mediocre rises to such distinguished positions?'" Engel said. "He wasn't a great teacher, he wasn't a great administrator, he wasn't a great scholar. What more do you ask for in a [hospital director...
...group of armed bandits hijacked a bus with30 schoolchildren and a teacher and demanded aplane to deliver them abroad," Albert Vlasov, headof the Soviet news agency Novosti, told a newsconference...