Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inner cities, poor rural areas and apparently even suburbs--It's no longer a question of students graduating high school with 5th-grade reading levels. Many young people can't even read at all. The author and teacher Jonathan Kozol has said that more than 25 million Americans are illiterate. If people are unable to read, our entire democracy is in danger...
Bradfield was an Upper Merion English teacher and is now serving three life sentences for conspiracy in the Reinert murders. The actual killings were done by Jay Smith, the school principal, who was sentenced to death and awaits execution. How Smith ever got to be an administrator of impressionable youth remains one of those mysteries of American public education. He fixed people with a cold, goatish stare and liked to shock. His opening remark to a teacher who had recently lost her husband: "As a young widow, perhaps you could tell me how you handle your sex life." When police...
...week for South Africa to research way to spend part of the $1 million aid fund created by President Bok last year to aid South African Blacks. Whether or not his trip leads to a concrete proposal for disbursing the funds, it is clear that through sound preparation this teacher of teachers has taught University administrators several lessons about how to aid disadvantaged Blacks in South Africa...
...grade school you would send the little redhaired girl/boy or that teacher you had a crush on a cheap Valentine or maybe present that special person with a candy Sweetheart that said, "I love you." But now that you're older, the stakes are a little higher and more expensive. If you care to send more than the very best, here are some ideas and prices...
...thin man with short gray hair who drove around town on a "rusty old sky-blue Mobylette." It made a terrible noise that his laughing students likened to a "tubercular cough." He always dressed simply, allowed no jokes and demanded punctuality, but he was a popular teacher who never punished his charges. At the end of each lesson, the mild man in sandals generally delivered a brief lament for the corruption of their society...