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Using a mixture of facial expressions, gestures, and ASL, which was interpreted for non-ASL speakers, he amused the audience with descriptions of his gym teacher pounding a large stick on the ground so he and the other deaf students could feel the beats of the music. As his story showed, deaf people can dance; they just have to do it in different ways, whether it involves using their pulse to detect the rhythm of the music or feeling the pounding beat with the aid of an overly enthusiastic gym teacher...
...Fofi Klimentidi, a 33-year-old teacher in Athens, is typical of many young Greeks who don't earn enough to support themselves despite being well-educated. She has an undergraduate degree from a Greek university and a master's degree in special education from the U.K. But the only job she can find is temporary, part-time work. In a good month, she makes $400. "My father helps support me," she said during a civil-servant protest against the austerity measures on Feb. 10. "We're already exploited by the state. We can't live on what they give...
...hardship. Older people, who remember the poverty and instability their country suffered through much of the past century, are philosophical about the current woes and still have faith that the E.U. will provide the necessary stability. "We have walked barefoot," said Stavros Mihos, a 72-year-old former teacher, gesturing at his feet. "This is nothing...
...ongoing crusade to expand the availability of higher education to low-income students, we reiterate our belief that fundamental reform is needed to rectify the unforgivably inadequacies of American education. Such reforms include expanding charter schools in order to encourage innovation, instituting merit-based pay for teachers in order to incentivize excellence, and raising teacher salaries to attract the best-qualified candidates to the teaching profession. The president’s Race to the Top program, which provides monetary incentives to states that embrace charter schools and merit pay, embodies the approach that we support...
After he completed middle school, Feng became a math teacher for middle school students while secretly and illicitly studying advanced Chinese with a former teacher. Feng then enrolled in college after the Cultural Revolution ended, later completing a master’s degree and traveling to the United States to complete a doctoral program in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania...