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...schools] in these areas, they can't find warm bodies to fill the [teaching] places," said Whitney Tilson '89, one of the group's seven co-founders...
...Tilson said Teach for America intends to attract the best college students in the country to train and eventually to teach in inner-city and rural public schools...
...Tilson said that although no overall shortage of teachers exists in the U.S. today, there is a dearth of qualified teachers in the inner cities and rural areas. Teachers qualified in math, science and foreign language are especially needed, he said...
...Tilson also said he thinks there are too few minority teachers, which he sees as a problem for largely minority schools where, he said, there are too few role models already...
Coupled with this was the problem for young conductors trying to learn their repertory out of the spotlight. An overnight success could make a name, but at what cost? Michael Tilson Thomas, for example, sprang to fame in Boston by substituting for William Steinberg and then spent the next two decades dealing with the consequences of sudden celebrity. Still only 44, Thomas has matured into a fine conductor, and now leads the London Symphony Orchestra. Perhaps in recognition of the pitfalls of premature success, Soviet emigre Semyon Bychkov, 37, started out in Grand Rapids and then went to Buffalo before...