Word: teacher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Early last summer, Kerry told me--off the record--that his sister Diana had been laid off from her job as a Boston public-school teacher because of budget cuts. Kerry had recently staged a press conference with the teacher of the year in South Carolina, who had also been laid off, and I asked him whether he planned to hold a similar event with Diana. "Oh, no," he said. "I wouldn't want to embarrass...
...strong supporter of the Kerry team,” Katz said. “I’d be very happy to help from Cambridge, but I have no plans on leaving Harvard for any period of time. I’m a full-time researcher and teacher and those are my first priorities...
...said the measurement for determining whether a school is succeeding or failing is often misleading and needs to be fixed by statisticians. She also faulted No Child Left Behind for setting goals without offering practical ways to achieve them. For example, she said, the law decrees that every teacher should be qualified without discussing incentives like raising salaries to improve the overall quality of teachers...
...regularly finds en route, "all we can do is talk to them, and at least give them a bit of comfort." For how much longer he doesn't know. "My days are starting to shrink," he admits. But not his faith. When seconded to the region as a teacher 35 years ago, he remembers thinking, "Where better than Esperance?" After all, the French word "derives from the verb esp?rer, to hope...
...drive north, he spots some Aboriginal teenagers. "When you're in Kalgoorlie," he tells them, "come to church." But Marumba's most important work is being done out here. "Some pastors preach fire and brimstone," says Laverton's newly inducted pastor Rhys Winter, "but Pastor Peter is more a teacher than a preacher." In the process, Marumba says he wants to give birth to a new kind of Christian worker - "a person that can float above all the issues." Laverton's Wongatha Wonganarra Aboriginal community is luckier than some - it's dry. The first indigenous community in W.A. to enact...