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...also arranges popular music. According to Malcolm, his brother demonstrates an insatiable passion for music. “[Graham] has amazing concentration and discipline... he would always practice more than me,” he says. Both Graham and Malcolm studied under the same piano teacher, Sayuri Miyamoto, for 10 years. According to Malcolm, the aptitude Graham has shown for piano playing has been immensely fulfilling for him. “[Graham] has a lot of confidence and pride in what he’s doing,” Malcolm says. Graham, a senior studying piano at Berkshire Hills Music...
...Boston Teachers Union’s rejection of Teach for America earlier this month—based on the argument that corps members are replacing laid-off teachers—illuminates anxieties about a program that more Harvard students are flocking to than ever before. Boston Public Schools plans to place TFA recruits in about 20 local positions, which Joshua Z. Biber, TFA recruiter for the greater Boston area, said was not a result of layoffs. “Even with some potential cuts in some areas, they are still making hires in the district, particularly in subject areas...
...carnage in Littleton, Colorado - 12 classmates and a teacher before the killers offed themselves - and the ease with which the teenagers acquired their weapons (two sawed-off shotguns, a 9-mm semiautomatic carbine and a TEC-9 handgun) seemed to usher in a new era of, well if not gun control, then at least gun awareness. (See pictures of Columbine 10 years later...
...Bersin's seven-year term as San Diego education superintendent - at the time one of the longest in the nation - was notable for the vehement opposition it drew from teacher unions and school board members. Both groups decried Bersin's "Blueprint for Student Success" plan - which placed an emphasis on basic math and reading programs and a single curriculum - as limiting (and even, said some extreme critics, "fascistic"). By the time he left, a huge rift had opened between teachers and San Diego principals, over 80% of which he hired during his term...
...Teachers can't believe it. We Are worried about the future. Alan Bersin is a dictator who never took the opinion of the classroom teacher." - Barbara Scott, elementary school teacher, upon the announcement that Bersin would be state education secretary, (San Diego Union-Tribune, April...