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...saying hola to a new crop of Caribbean imports, and we’re not talking about bananas. Faced with a rapidly growing Latino population—30 percent of children in the city’s public schools are Hispanic—administrators have begun aggressively recruiting bilingual teachers from Puerto Rico to teach math, science, special education, and English as a second language. While the merits of bilingual education remain controversial, this recruitment is a positive step to help level the playing field for students and promote their success in the classroom. An article in the Boston Globe...
When Harvard’s future dean of admissions and financial aid was applying to the College in 1962, the first two teachers he asked for letters of recommendation refused. “They wouldn’t write for Harvard because they thought it was a bunch of Communists, a bunch of atheists, a bunch of rich snobs, and if you went there you’d flunk out and you’d lose your soul,” said William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, who has served as dean for the last 22 years...
...Stuff They Don't Need Re "The New Austerity," most adults I hear from claim that their spending on bigger homes and more cars and stuff is for family [March 24]. But as a high-school teacher, I have never had a student write an essay on the wonderful big home, the two cars or any of the other stuff showered on them. Instead, students write of their parents' absence - due to busy lifestyles or divorce - and the sense that they are disconnected from their peers. I hope your article spurs readers to free up time for friends and family...
...comic capital out of a basic situation that a lot of people - not all of them currently afflicted by acne - have endured in life. Mostly the kids (Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley and David Dorfman) are humiliated in a lot of unfunny ways while Drillbit, pretending to be a substitute teacher, tries to stay above the fray, mainly by getting his rocks off with an improbably randy English teacher (Leslie Mann...
...Nolan said she didn’t feel the needs of the district have been adequately dealt with over the past years. “The district’s not where I think it should be,” she said after the meeting. Jack Haverty, a former teacher in the district and president of the Cambridge Teacher’s Association, said he approved of Fowler-Finn’s “serious” approach to the job and lack of “political games...