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...some of her retired patients suffered not only from loneliness but also from loss of self-worth. To address those problems, she and her colleagues developed a novel program called Experience Corps, which trains teams of seven to 10 retired adults and places them in elementary schools to provide classroom support to teachers in everything from reading and math to violence prevention. The team approach gives schools a critical mass of input from the volunteers. It also gives the volunteers something priceless: a chance to make friends with other older people engaged in the same worthwhile task. The Baltimore...
...Corps last year, she has found a new sense of purpose in helping the teacher and kids in a first-grade class at Guilford Elementary School in Baltimore. She's also made a couple of close friends among her teammates. "We start out talking about the children in our classroom and end up talking about our families," she says. And as a bonus, walking the long hallway to her classroom has got her in better shape physically. She's lost a few pounds and no longer uses the cane she once needed--yet another testament to the health benefits...
...Williams sisters have indeed become well known in the fashion world. Last year designer Jeremy Scott made dresses inspired by them, and they posed in Vogue wearing Carolina Herrera gowns. They are, by far, the best-dressed women in tennis, not to mention their classroom...
...Gore would agree: our schools need more Marilyn Whirrys. For 35 years, Whirry has inspired high school students to think deeply about great literature and to use its devices in their writing. She is the kind of teacher that students come back to visit decades later in her classroom in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Last May a national educators' group named her its Teacher of the Year. And with the nation's public schools planning to hire 2.5 million new teachers over the next decade, Whirry is excited that each presidential candidate is pushing ways to recruit, train and reward better...
...Still, the boom in online learning of the last few years has made me a bit queasy - and not only because of my technological insecurities. The idea of spending four years at home looking at Windows instead of sitting in a lively classroom looking out windows seemed about as much fun as screening prospective dates over the Web versus scoping them out in person. I could see the convenience factor for students balancing graduate study with jobs and families, older students looking for enrichment or far-flung recruits in the U.S. Army, which just launched a $600 million online learning...