Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Medical School, Brandt teaches an elective course in medical ethics which regularly attracts large enrollment, says Leon Eisenberg, Presley Professor of Social Medicine. "The large numbers of students are a compliment to his skill as a teacher...
...time he was 27, Kozol became a permanent substitute teacher for a fourth grade class in Roxbury, a post that allowed him to teach regularly without the required teaching credentials...
When school officials learned what Kozol was teaching, he was fired for "curriculum deviation." Thinking back on his dismissal, Kozol said last week, "I think the students suffered because of the symbolic bitterness of having just lost a teacher who had put poetry, and poetry written by a Black man, in their hands...
...George Leyva Junior High in San Jose, the new computer teacher, Irwin Maloff, helped organize an all-girl computer club and quickly attracted 20 enthusiastic members. Says Maloff, an avid computer buff with three daughters: "Girls have been shortchanged for years." Teachers eager to bridge the computer gender gap will soon be able to turn for advice to The Neuter Computer, a guidebook developed by New York City's Computer Equity Training Project and scheduled to be published in December. Its contents include 56 learning activities and 96 pedagogical tricks, ranging from apportioning computer time equally between boys and girls...
...doing as well as my father at this point, but I think in ten years or so I'll be able to." Many people who went into middle-class careers are now bitterly disappointed. Ella Parham, 39, of Boston, earns $31,400 as a third-grade teacher in the city schools but feels she has slipped into the lower class. A single parent, she supports two daughters, ages 16 and 19, and a 3-year-old grandchild. "I surely don't feel like I'm middle class," she , says. "I feel like we're at the bottom of the ladder...