Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoping to get a little more inspiration and enthusiasm from Bradley than I did," said Canaan delegate Art Ferrier, a high school government teacher...
...churned out students ill-prepared for the work force or college. By the mid-'90s, students were testing some 70% below the national average in reading and math, and nearly 6% were chronically truant. And kids could always plan for a few extra days of summer vacation as teacher strife over pay would invariably grind into a strike...
...wrote part of the first Harry book while on the dole, feels she has slid right down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. The daughter of middle-class parents near Bristol, she began writing secretly when she was six, and after university took a series of jobs, mainly as a teacher. But she never considered writing for children until one day in 1990, when "Harry just strolled into my head fully formed." That same year, however, her life fell apart. Her mother died of multiple sclerosis at 45, and Rowling was both burglarized and fired from her job. She moved...
...boldness of the grad students pits them against some of the professors they work for, who warn that collective bargaining will defile teacher-student relationships. Such high-minded claims are undercut by campus realities: many profs shirk face-to-face, small-group instruction and dump teaching responsibilities onto graduate students. Last month the Supreme Court upheld an Ohio law that prescribes a minimum number of hours that professors at state universities must devote to teaching. Says U.C. Berkeley grad-student activist Ricardo Ochoa: "We do about 60% of the contact with undergraduates. Our working conditions are the undergraduates' learning conditions...
...Novel: Michael Cunningham's "The Hours." Drama: "Wit," by kindergarten teacher Margaret Edson Poetry: "Blizzard of One," by former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand History: "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898," by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (no relation) Biography: "Lindbergh," by A. Scott Berg General Nonfiction: "Annals of the Former World," by John McPhee Music: "Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion," by Melinda Wagner...