Word: programming
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Emily Feistritzer, president of the National Center for Education Information, believes the teacher shortage is overblown. "Before you enroll in any education program," she advises, "make sure there is a job on the other end. The first place to go is the school or district where you'd like to work, because they--not the state's department of education--are responsible for teacher hiring...
...graduate-school route seems too time consuming or expensive, you may be able to gain credentials by participating in a one- or two-year alternative program, available in 40 states--and well developed in about a dozen, including California, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico and Texas. Some 125,000 new teachers have been certified this way--24,000 of them just in the past two years...
With its roughly 1 percent participation rate, the ASG has raised $1,127 for organizations such as UNICEF and Get Ready, a program to help underprivileged students prepare for the SAT exam...
...past two years the Black-and-White earned seventh-place finishes in the team competition. Last year's first varsity eight placed sixth in its race. The 1973 team represented the United States at the World Championships in Moscow, a remarkable feat accomplished just two years after the rowing program began at Radcliffe College...
...benefits of the plan are clear: Fitness: The military will rejuvenate the middle-aged boomers, functioning as an incomparable diet-and-exercise program. Slim down, shape up. Sexual behavior: If all the service people - women as well as men - are in their 50s, the incidence of sexual harassment will decline almost to zero. So will the incidence of pregnancies. Let older, more mature hormones exert their civilizing influence. (The commanding officer may want to have a word with Private Clinton on this matter). Boomer psyche: An all-middle-aged army would repair at last the moral split in the generation...