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With all the hand wringing about education these days, it is heartening that at least some people are doing something about it. All over the U.S., thousands are leaving their business and professional jobs to become teachers. Career switchers are the fastest-growing group in teacher training today. More than half the students admitted to postbaccalaureate education programs are choosing teaching as a second career. At Chamblee, Loper is just one of more than a dozen teachers who have left other careers. Among his colleagues, there are an ex-paralegal, ex-talent agent, ex-chef, ex-engineer, ex-international banker...
...Clinton Administration finds its chances for a serious foreign policy legacy--on everything from arms control to the Middle East--under Helms' gavel. When he's in the mood, he seems happy to hand the Administration a big win, as he did with NATO expansion last spring. But most of the time he enjoys outfoxing the White House, as he did last year when he got the Senate to reject the nuclear test-ban treaty. At the end of next week, when Clinton flies to Moscow for his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he will be looking over...
Localization is the ability of a hand-held wireless to give you info geared specifically to where you happen to be. Some handhelds can do it now--by GPS or other technologies--but many more will be able to do it soon. Prompted by emergency-response concerns, the FCC is requiring all cellular carriers by late next year to be able to locate all their subscribers within...
...have to hand it to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who has built an impressive career as the hectoring moral lightning rod of American family life, telling people what they don't want to hear about how they conduct themselves and especially how they raise their kids. Through her books and syndicated radio show (soon to become a TV show), Dr. Laura preaches a reactionary gospel, begging for a return to 1950s family values and dissing the choices of an entire generation--my generation--that wants to "have it all": fabulous careers, love lives and families. Dr. Laura is so ripe...
...What has been frustrating for many scholars is Gilligan's unwillingness to deal with the psychological research, finding that she tends to dismiss it out of hand...