Word: teachers
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...really a great teacher and an awesomescholar. I feel so lucky to have been able to takea class with her--she really was so brilliant,"Hans said...
...known her for a number of years and I'mvery saddened by the decision," he said, "BeatriceHanssen is such a great scholar. I imagine she wasa wonderful teacher as well...
Brendel began taking piano lessons when he was six, but he was not a prodigy. He didn't have a steady teacher, or attend a prestigious music conservatory, or possess the kind of breathtaking technical virtuosity that instantly seduces listeners. "After my 16th birthday, I did not have a teacher," he says. "I only went to two or three master classes. So it was a slower development, but it was my own...I'm used to trying to find things out for myself...
There are approximately 250 teachers at Lowell High School; $40 million could have increased each teacher's salary by $10,000 for 16 years, or more modestly, by $5,000 for 32 years. This increase in salaries would have attracted more capable, better educated teachers and improved the education students receive far better than a library with high ceilings or hundreds of computers. Raising teachers' salaries does not require an increase in taxes, nor does it require cutting back on state-sponsored programs other than education; it simply requires that we intelligently assess where the money we do spend...
...many teachers in Massachusetts are rapidly approaching retirement, it is particularly vital that the teachers who are hired within the next few years be the best teachers possible, as they will likely be educating our children for years to come. Teachers and their organizations should reaffirm their support of higher teacher salaries. Our children deserve the best public schools possible, and the most effective way to provide them is to attract the best teachers possible by raising teachers' salaries. April R. Gleason is a first-year in Holworthy Hall...