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...virtually impossible to maintain the relative private experience of a teacher,” he said...
...When Kozol read from his newest book, “Letters to a Young Teacher,” to a packed Memorial Church in September, Hornig was in the crowd. After the talk, she said, she finally overcame her hesitations about teaching and applied to Teach For America (TFA), which places college graduates in two-year teaching positions in high-need school districts. (She will be teaching high school French in the Mississippi Delta region next year...
...Nixon with a bevy of choices that have to be made and risks that have to be taken. He still sits at the head of the class because he’s teacher’s pet, but he’s beginning to wonder what will happen when teacher leaves the classroom...
...Denver," an echo of their hopes that Clinton would take her case all the way to the Democratic National Convention to be held in August in Denver. After the meeting adjourned, women sat on the floor sobbing, while others, like Pennsylvania voter Betty Jean King, 60, a retired teacher from Shippensburg, ranted to television cameras: "If it's not Hillary, I'm voting for McCain. 17 million people voted for Hillary and I'm telling you many of them are going to defect...
...prize at Cannes, the Palme d'Or, went for the first time in 21 years to a French film: Laurent Cantet's Entre les Murs (The Class), which traces a year in a Paris junior-high class. This judicious, quietly touching film was made with nonprofessional actors, including the teacher, François Bégaudeau, on whose memoir-novel the film is based. When the unanimous award was announced, Cantet, Bégaudeau and the rainbow coalition of kids all swarmed onstage for an ecstatic reunion...