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Gordon’s accomplishments as a teacher in Social Studies are well-known, and his newly acquired tenure, most assuredly signifying his accomplishments as a professor, should not force him to relinquish his teaching post. On the contrary, letting senior faculty teach within various departments is not only beneficial for the professors who want to teach to their desires, but also for the students who are not limited to the teaching staff of only one department...
...analyze Chicago’s test scores, Levitt looked for trends typical of a cheating teacher and developed an algorithm to identify them. Levitt—working with Kennedy School Assistant Professor Brian A. Jacob ’92—flagged classrooms in which students’ exams evinced unusual strings of identical answers in the middle of the test. The researchers found that some teachers were actually altering their students’ tests—erasing wrong answers and filling in the correct bubbles themselves—to boost scores. The study resulted in six teachers being fired...
...SENCAN BAYRAMOGLU, retired Turkish teacher...
...After leading a Texas high school football team in Friday Night Lights last fall and bossing around a scrappy bunch of Little Leaguers in this summer's Bad News Bears remake, Thornton Jr. is donning the whistle once again to play next year's Mr. Woodcock, "the P.E. teacher we all had growing up, but a little darker," the Bad Santa star says. His portrayal of the sometimes sadistic Woodcock, Thornton says, was influenced by his dad Billy Ray, "a very good high school basketball coach but also a hard-ass." The Arkansas-born actor believes the kind of discipline...
Feldstein says that he initially decided to become a teacher because of the freedom it offered...