Many people -- teachers, principals, parents, local civic leaders, educators, people who actually know something about education in their communities -- tried to tell Secretary Duncan that the relentlessly harsh imposition of standardized tests and their link to teacher evaluations was not a good idea.
You want life-long, committed educators – people who entered the profession as a calling, who dedicate their lives to young people.
At the community level, Salum is motivated by the recognition and small service fees he receives from his community as a result of his work ('When you are a teacher or a health educator, people in the community know you').
This is consistent with previous research [ 4, 8] and suggests either that negative stereotypes of employers and educators dominate people's perceptions or that people are aware of real inequalities that people with SMI encounter (i.e., over a third of this sample for whom these areas were applicable had experienced discrimination in employment and one fifth in education).
These criteria are flexible, they say, because most sites were not made by professional Web designers but by "librarians and archivists, re-enactors and preservationists, students and educators -- people more interested in the Civil War than in slick appearances or sophisticated menus".
"Here they are, corporate leaders, educators, legal people, and they had never met Kofi Annan".
I know many of the teachers there, and as both educators and people they are top-notch.
But the Negro leagues were part of an ecosystem in which artists, educators, business people and laborers were forced — often by segregation — to live, work and play together.
As its director, Dr. Scott has mobilized "scientists, educators, lay people, religious groups, skeptics, agnostics, believers, scholars and ordinary citizens" to advance the cause of science.
For instance, in addition to pulling condoms over bananas — which has become a de rigueur contraception lesson among "liberal" educators — young people need to hear specifics about making the method work for them.
She collected stories about extraordinary children and included them in a four-page newsletter that was distributed to her board of advisers, which included educators, business people,, psychologists, authors, parents, a Nassau County judge and a student.
