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...spring of 1983 the Women's Presidential Project, coordinated by former Congresswoman Bella Abzug, sent questionnaires to all the announced presidential candidates. A follow-up series of meetings were held to "teach them how to reach women," says Mildred Jeffrey, a longtime official of the United Auto Workers Union. In July 1983, five of the six presidential candidates traveled to San Antonio to meet the National Women's Political Caucus. It seems amazing now to remember that this was the first time that presidential candidates had made such a pilgrimage, that until then women had been considered...
DIED. Soia Mentschikoff, 69, Russian-born legal scholar and educator who specialized in commercial law and broke down many professional barriers: in 1947 she became the first woman to teach law at Harvard, in 1951 the first at the University of Chicago; from 1974 until her 1982 retirement, she was dean of the University of Miami law school, one of the first women so appointed at an accredited U.S. institution; of cancer; in Coral Gables...
...result: if all goes well, Germans will be coming to Georgia in August to teach math. Although the program is being termed a cultural exchange, it flows one way. Tresp and Georgia education officials will fly to Hanover early next month to interview between 20 and 30 German teachers. All have the equivalent of a B.A. in mathematics and an M.A. in education. Says Eloise Barren, math consultant to the Georgia state education department: "Math is a universal language. Trigonometry here is trigonometry there. The only problem is, can they communicate that knowledge?" The chances are good, since the candidates...
Georgia is not the first state to turn to foreign aid for teaching talent. In the past 14 years, Louisiana has hired as many as 300 French teachers a year from Belgium, Quebec and France to teach in Cajun classrooms. Although the state has been trying to train Louisiana natives to teach French, the supply of teachers continues to lag behind demand. Furthermore, in the 1985-86 school year, all public schools in Louisiana will be required to teach a second language in grades 4 through 8, which will create the need for about 360 new French teachers...
National Education Association President Mary Hatwood Futrell argues that Georgia's move merely "underscores the fact that teachers' salaries are noncompetitive with industry. We don't need to go outside this country to find bright people to teach math and science." Georgia officials insist they see German teachers as a short-term solution. Says Barren...