Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Colleagues at the Kennedy School praised Lawrence--who has been on leave for the past year--as an economist and a teacher...
...really just the stalling, I think, that landed me in the slow group. I didn't like being a member of the slow group. It brought back bad memories of having a gym teacher yell that skipping is "a jump and a hop." Which, I still argue, it isn't. Either way, it's not what you want to be thinking about when you're going 70 m.p.h. through a hairpin and you're 5 in. from the ground...
Schrank, who was himself a moving man as well as a teacher in Harlem, creates a protagonist who, despite his moral shortcomings, remains an affable presence. Imbued with streetwise passion, Schrank's characters expose a frustrated fringe society that simply wants to feel comfortable...
...wasn't just the money," says Margaret Wallace, who emigrated from Jamaica in 1980 and was a poorly paid teacher's assistant for the blind before becoming a Kennedy Fellow in 1992. John was personally involved, "asking, how is the course work, what job do I want to do, what's my future?" Wallace got a degree in special education last year and now teaches those with cerebral palsy. Nearly all the 400 fellows over the years have stayed in the disabilities field...
...obstacle the dam builders never anticipated was the feisty Jean. A native of Nantes, she had been fascinated by nature since childhood, studied biology in college and got a master's degree in ecology. In 1985 she ran into a former teacher who was trying to organize opposition to the dams. "I went to some meetings with him and was soon gripped by the same passion to save the Loire," she explains...