They took Wilson/Burgess from the beginning to not very far from the end: pre-war Jesuit school, Manchester University, non-commissioned officer in a largely peaceful war (education corps), teaching in adult education and a grammar school - and then the radical break, going to Malaya in 1954, to "the Eton of the East" and to a couple of training colleges.
From my first post-college job as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps teaching fifth grade in inner-city Philadelphia, to my work now as a Senator from Pennsylvania, I try to keep in mind the sacred obligation that all of us -- especially those in positions of influence -- have to help the most vulnerable.
The F.C.C. is considering creating a "digital literacy corps" to teach productive uses of the computer and Internet to students, parents and job seekers.
Currently, our corps members teach more than 9,000 American Indian and Native Hawaiian students in New Mexico, Hawaii, Oklahoma and South Dakota -- on reservations, in pueblos and in communities both urban and rural.
Currently more than 6,000 Teach For America corps members teach in urban and rural communities, while 14,000 alumni continue working for change from inside and outside the education system.
The communities where Teach For America corps members teach have a particularly high need for additional special education support, as Black, Latino and Native American students are overrepresented in special education courses nationwide.
Yet so far, both merit-pay efforts and programs that recruit a more-elite teaching corps, like Teach for America, have thin records of reliably improving student learning.
Since then, the staff member who developed the corps and taught them African beats had retired.
Ehrmann got his own start in education as a Teach For America corps member, teaching fourth and fifth grades at Emery Elementary School, in a tough neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
That such creatures work as a group onstage is a miracle, and a credit to the corps values taught at S.A.B., which also rule the company: all but one of the 53 women in City Ballet are alumnae of the school.
Across the country, our Teach For America regions are developing local partnerships to improve the training and development of our corps members teaching in special education classrooms.
