Word: teacher
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...thin air at timberline to repair gashed trails, there's no time--or breath--to waste wondering whether the Fourteeners are worth their sweat to preserve. "I've enjoyed these mountains for 35 years, and I brought up two daughters climbing," says Susie Frazee, a retired elementary school teacher, as she attacked Bierstadt's slime with a hoe. "Now I just want to give something back...
NADYA LABI worked in a rural school in South Africa, teaching English and conducting the girls' choir, before joining TIME International in 1995. Now a staff writer at TIME, she tells a story this week about a music teacher in New York City who works with underprivileged children, selected by lottery, at public schools. Labi used to study violin, but says her "fingers could never quite master the vibrato." She became a journalistic prodigy instead, mastering subjects ranging from grief counseling to the Tae-Bo phenomenon. But Labi, who sang soprano in choir as an undergraduate at Harvard...
...remains were first discovered on the construction site by Rachel E. Sexton '00, an anthropology concentrator. When Sexton's teacher, Lecturer on Anthropology John P. Gerry, was told about the renovations, he asked her to oversee the work in case anything interesting turned...
...remains were first discovered on the construction site by Rachel E. Sexton '00, an anthropology concentrator. When Sexton's teacher, Lecturer on Anthropology John P. Gerry, was told about the renovations, he asked her to oversee the work in case anything interesting turned...
...nine-year-old immigrated a few years ago from Mexico. No English was spoken in his troubled and poor home, and his limited language skills made for low grades. But last fall, six student tutors from the U.C. Irvine English program came to his fourth-grade classroom. The teacher, Marisol Duarte, saw only subtle changes at first. But two months later, when the kids wrote their final poems of the term, Raynaldo's reading had jumped from first- to third-grade level. And his poem had the glow of a prayer: "...the beauty of the hand of God/never...