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...Keefe, who is also a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard, said that while he will not teach for his first few years at Wellesley, he does hope to return eventually to the classroom...
...made it through, and snagged an invitation to the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy, where she spent 11 grueling weeks in the classroom and in intense training. She didn’t know whether she would make it, watching as others tripped up along the way—like one who, unable to overcome his fear of water for a pool test, was sent packing...
...bothered her not at all that Matt Hess, 6, read with his stuffed horse Floppy perched on his head. But Sevalstad permits no real classroom nonsense and gets little from ranch children raised to do chores right. Fifth and sixth graders give her a hand with the little ones. Said Erica Hess: "They ask me what words mean and what the directions in their work books say." Sevalstad takes pride in the Thanksgiving themes tacked to one wall. Wrote Vance Voldseth, age 10: "I am thankful for the Yamaha three-wheeler ... I am thankful for Fred [a calf...
...fact, denying it even to themselves. For Angela Spencer, 16, of Lawndale, reality did not hit home until five months into her pregnancy, when she entered a special school for young mothers. "A lot of the girls had already had their babies," she relates. "When I walked in that classroom, it was like the first time I realized what was happening to me." Unable to grasp their situation, adolescents frequently wait too long even to consider having an abortion. The gravity of such a decision often eludes them. "I was going to have an abortion, but I spent the money...
...measure my ability," said Mary Lee Reyna, a first-grade teacher in San Antonio. "If I am incompetent, you'd think they would have found me out in 23 years. The only way you can tell if I'm a competent teacher is to come see me in my classroom." Harold Massey, executive director of the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals, maintained that the main result of the teacher test will be to "totally and completely demoralize the profession in Texas." The feeling was particularly strong among blacks and Hispanics, who felt the test would discriminate against them...