Out of Africa, Photos Dr. Mark H. Swartz, a cardiologist, teacher, textbook author and photographer, is having a comeback of sorts as an exhibiting artist in Westchester.
In England, somewhat belatedly, William Leybourn, a mathematics teacher, textbook writer, and surveyor, in 1694, published his Pleasure with Profit: Consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, viz., Numerical, Geometrical, Mechanical, Statical, Astronomical, Horometrical, Cryptographical, Magnetical, Automatical, Chymical, and Historical.
Throughout grad school, I had had a number of ideas about other careers (high school teacher, textbook editing, marrying well), but nothing felt right.
They need teachers, textbooks and pencils - and no one made a fortune supplying those.
The educational system is administered through public school districts that provide teachers, textbooks, laboratory materials, and physical equipment.
What kinds of educational institutions, teachers, textbooks, and patterns of instruction emerged?
Voucher programs like Cleveland's siphon off public dollars, leaving struggling urban systems with less money for skilled teachers, textbooks and computers.
An inflation adjustment is needed to tell the cost, in 1999, of the same number and quality of teachers, textbooks and other school necessities that $750 bought in 1970.
That change, hailed at first as a bright beginning, has proven to be partly stillborn, as teachers, textbooks and supplies came up drastically short in the state-run schools.
Critics call the plan a drastic and simplistic solution to difficult problems: overcrowded and outmoded buildings, a lack of qualified teachers, textbooks and equipment and a growing number of students for whom English is a second language.
