I had played basketball from middle school through college, and along with the bank's offer, I received one from the Milwaukee Does to play professional basketball.
As an English instructor in various capacities, I'm exposed to many of the city's youth, from middle school through college.
Bob Lyons, right, rakes hay at the 126-acre farm, which employes local students from middle school through college in planting, weeding and harvesting.
By contrast, our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.
Colleen Pike Blair Manhattan To the Editor: Dr. Koller maintains that "From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a roomful of students".
Eli Savit, 24, who spent two years at a struggling Bronx middle school through the Teach for America program and is now in law school, said he doubted whether the program would have enticed him to stay in teaching.
"It's getting younger and younger," said William L. Gertz, executive vice president of the American Institute for Foreign Study, a private company in Stamford, Conn., that arranges study-abroad programs for about 50,000 students in middle school through college (www.aifs.org).org
She frequently volunteers to teach and mentor women and minority science students from middle school through college.
Students from middle school through college use the product to play with ideas, create stories, draw, discuss, and solve problems together.
She mentors women and minority students from middle school through college, and she helped establish a support network for Latinas working in the computing field.
