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...ball. Ask her what she would like to symbolize, and there is a long, long pause. "I haven't really thought about that," she says, even if everyone else has. "I guess," she says, searching for the meaning of her story as the soldier recedes and the aspiring kindergarten teacher emerges, "I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should...
...Francisco Bay Area and Memphis, Tenn. At a time when already anemic school arts budgets are dwindling, the unconventional program is thriving and enjoying a bit of fortuitous buzz. One of the fall's hottest movies, School of Rock, starring Jack Black as a head-banging substitute teacher, is spreading the mantra that kids playing rock 'n' roll can change the world--or at least look irresistibly cute trying...
Frustrated by the lack of funding for music in his own public school, Wish, 36, started a "peanut-sized" operation while he was both a primary-grades teacher and a moonlighting jazz guitarist in Redwood City, Calif., in 1996. Wish borrowed instruments from friends and began recording his students and mailing CDs to local musicians known for philanthropy, like Santana and Bonnie Raitt. Soon the stars were dropping in for jam sessions. "I was especially knocked out by one of the young girls who I could see was nailing the guitar parts," says Raitt. "The whole experience gave me vivid...
...Sant’s film, which he also wrote, could have gone wrong in a lot of places. Four years after Erik Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 14 classmates and one teacher at their Littleton, Col., high school, memories of that day remain vivid for anyone who was or knew a high school student at the time. Attempts to identify the “cause” of the murders became a morbid national pastime, with the media and high profile Congress members simplistically blaming everyone from Marilyn Manson to the National Rifle Association for the boys’ lethal...
Gephardt explained, “My sister is a teacher and made $17,000 in her first year. Yet, she had the same loans as someone who was graduating with...