Sure, we have an amazing list of literacy organizations who are helping, but it's the tireless teachers and school librarians to whom we'd like to devote this update.
KIPP "does great work despite the force of poverty," Abrams points out, but the non-profit depends heavily on philanthropists (to augment budgets), "tireless teachers, and students as well as families capable of abiding by rigid academic and behavioral expectations that limit its reach".
He was an influential and tireless teacher, pressing on despite debilitating headaches.
As a 14-year-old in Washington, I was there on the Mall, taken by my mother, a tireless teacher, with the hope that I might learn something.
That tireless teacher who gets to class early and stays late and dips into her own pocket to buy supplies because she believes that every child is her charge -- she's marching.
(Ticketmaster)www.roundabouttheatre.com THE MIRACLE WORKER -- The revival of William Gibson's 1959 play about Helen Keller and her tireless teacher, Annie Sullivan, will be the Broadway debut of Hilary Swank in the role of Sullivan.
But for every bureaucrat living in a McMansion while doling out vouchers for people in leaky trailers, there are honest cops, hardworking teachers, gutsy firefighters and tireless enforcers of laws that protect our air, water and public lands.
Thanks to Mr. Klein, to a band of tireless, talented teachers and to students who are as hard-working as they are deserving, last June at Bronx Lab 95percentt of the class of 2008 graduated, with more than 350 college acceptances and $2.5 million in financial aid.
A couple of weeks ago, an intrepid and tireless group of teachers from across the UK converged on the National Theatre for the start of New Views, a revolutionary playwriting programme for 15-19 year old students that will put their perspectives right at the seat of power in the UK – the houses of parliament.
Thanks to the tireless work of teachers like Esther Andrews, these children will learn to read and write.
Meanwhile, the difficult slog is done by unsung parents and teachers, tireless entrepreneurs and fired-up occupiers, community activists and hundreds of thousands of non-profiteers on the front lines.
