Why would English, a litigation support manager, decide to become a computer science teacher?
His mother was a computer science teacher at Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson.
Her mother retired as a computer science teacher at Long Valley Middle School in Long Valley, N.J.
He started teaching in 1983 in Nottinghamshire as a secondary maths and computer science teacher.
Mrs. Glenn, 30, is a high school computer science teacher at Friends Seminary, the Quaker school in Manhattan.
In 2009, he began volunteering as a computer science teacher at a Seattle public high school on his way to work.
There has never been a better time to train as a computer science teacher, with scholarships, bursaries, several training options, support and mentoring all available as part of the Government's overhaul of computer science teaching.
The mother, Natalya N. Magnitskaya, 59, a computer science teacher, has kept a low profile for nearly 18 months as her son's employers from the London-based investment fund Hermitage Capital kept the case in an international spotlight.
Last year, the hiring focused on four fields -- photonics, new media and computer science, teacher education and foreign languages -- fields in which CUNY already had some strength and wanted more prominence.
"If the stock is dropping like that, it means there's not a lot of faith out there in what they're doing," said Michele Miller, a computer science teacher.
