Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...response to a question from a Tennessee teacher's daughter concerning the nation's poor treatment of teachers, he asked the audience to envision school choice...
...teachers also need to be better prepared for the next millenium. I propose a new, national, federally-funded one-year program of special instruction--the Teacher Corps--to recruit the best and the brightest to enter teaching, to train them in the latest technologies and methodologies and to provide incentives to teach in underserved areas. We could better train 750,000 teachers over the next 10 years for $9 billion...
...know now that Clinton did lie to us, and he lied to us for over two years, first by omission and then by angrily denouncing the allegations and denying all wrong-doing. He acted like a scolding teacher, telling the American people to "Listen up, because I'm only going to say this once." As if he thought we weren't listening. As if he thought we were children...
Recently, while visiting a community center in a Welsh town that is wilting under high unemployment, Charles was inspecting some art pinned to the wall when he was asked by teacher Andrew Herbert to draw something. The accomplished amateur painter obliged immediately, dashing off a witty sketch of Jason Rossington, 14, complete with mop of peroxided hair. Explaining later how he summoned the nerve to thrust felt-tip pen and paper in front of the heir to the throne, Herbert said it took no nerve at all: "You feel relaxed with him, as though you've known...
...just by describing his drives around town. At times he does just that, interspersing accounts of Wimbledon games from 1975 with tales of his medical rounds and glimpses of his marital breakup. But at its core his is a brave and heart-baring story about how even a teacher of internal medicine could not see inside the person closest to him. The fact that it will speak to anyone who has looked with his heart instead of his eyes (just as Gunesekera's novel will appeal to anyone separated from a home he loves) reminds us that "Anglo-Indian" writing...