Word: teacheres
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...Mayor Kilpatrick told me. "People here are sensitive about white people bossing them around." Kilpatrick insisted he wasn't opposed to more charter schools; his own children go to one. And he was not pleased by the union's role, even though he's a former teacher. "The teachers' union once was a progressive force, but that day has passed," he says. "And it's not coming back until the union realizes that we're going to have to make dramatic changes to improve education here...
...dark spaces, where strange creatures crawl and sick excitement comes in all sorts of packages. Frannie has tiptoed down into one of those spaces - the basement of a seedy bar - and witnessed a sex act. The woman on the giving end is later decapitated, and Molloy grills the reluctant teacher as a hostile witness who has something to hide. Don't we all? That's what In the Cut, based on Susanna Moore's novel, wants to say and show. If the lure of finding out repels you, then the filmmakers have succeeded. You've heard the movie is sexy...
...mischief, and with a sturdy cast and script behind him, he manages to whip up some of the biggest laughs of the year. Black plays Dewey Finn, a guitarist thrown out of his band, rendering him even less capable of paying the rent that he owes his substitute teacher roommate. Posing as his roommate, he assumes the responsibility of educating a classroom of unusually well-behaved fifth graders, who he discovers to be, rather conveniently, excellent musicians. School of Rock echoes with comic and emotional resonance without getting mired in sentimentality, allowing Black to revel in a role in which...
...took his students as a teacher very seriously,” he said. “Sert had a keen eye for recognizing talent in students and never feared to encourage them. He wanted students to understand his principles, but not to imitate his forms...
...celebrating Sert’s half-century of taking command of and changing Harvard University forever,” said Jorge Silvetti, Robinson, Jr. Professor in Architecture. “Some consider him the paradigm of the architect teacher that many aspire to and few match...