She kept her laptop open on the sofa to constantly refresh a Web site listing American teachers who had been found.
In Chicago, reserve-list teachers are removed from the payroll after ten months.
In addition, a national bulletin board, run by the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification, lists teachers whose licenses have been revoked or suspended, but reporting is spotty, said Roy J. Einreinhofer, the association's executive director.
For their list, teachers and librarians road-test more than 300 new books for literary quality, suitability for curriculum and selections that children might not discover on their own.
More than that, publicly educated children will continue to live in an alternate universe of reserve-list teachers being paid for doing nothing, Rubber Roomers writing mission statements, union reps refereeing teacher-feedback sessions, competence "hearings" that are longer than capital-murder trials, and student-performance data that are quarantined like a virus.
There are long lists teachers can choose from.
You ask a kid who has graduated from high school to list the teachers who mattered in his life, and he will reel off names.
Other skills, which were listed by teachers as being needed at a lower level, were reported as being used often by the practising young doctors.
My students' memories are filled with the same list: teacher lecture and silent students, rote memorization, textbooks, work sheets, tests and irrelevant content void of emotion and controversy.
The $450,000 — which includes Clinton's donors who listed student, teacher, educator, tutor, professor and instructor as an "occupation" — is far less than the $2.5 million her campaign received from those in the financial industry.
