Word: teachers
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...long time, we would put the perpetrator into the center, show pictures of horror and try to shock with numbers. It only recently occurred to me that if you don't look at the individual, you make him or her a victim a second time," one teacher in Berlin said after reviewing the archive. Foundation director Nachama agrees. "The commemoration of these events is no longer just about abstract history," he says. "It's about concrete events; the history of your street, the history of your neighborhood...
...first priorities in Congress come January. Down the road, he or she can also plan to direct the founding of hundreds of new charter schools and the spread of universal pre-K nationwide, as well as a continued focus on increased accountability and a better trained teacher corps...
...could be tapped: Her day job is professor of education at Stanford, but for the past year, she has been a key voice defining Obama's positions on issues such as school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity...
...will go to someone else: Darling-Hammond is not popular among education reformers, particularly those to the center-right. That's because her views on issues such as merit pay vs. teacher tenure are more conventional than even Obama's. So if the President-elect really wants to shake things up on the education front, Darling-Hammond won't likely be his choice...
...could be tapped: As governor, Hunt focused attention on one of Obama's key schools proposals: expanding early childhood education, especially to low-income and minority children. He also worked hard to improve teacher quality, testing innovations in this area of perpetual struggle for American schools. On the federal level, he recently served on Spellings' Commission on the Future of Higher Education...