In his first trip to the West Coast since he tipped the U.S. Senate to Democratic control, Vermont Sen. James Jeffords visited educators, homeless students and veterans Friday to learn more about their education reform programs.
If a college merits a visit, educators recommend the acid test: ask to speak with current students with disabilities.
The Forsyth district has a tour planned this spring with 160 spots for visiting educators from around the country that is fully booked.
Yad Vashem alone, which opened its international teaching branch only in the 1990s, produces material in more than 20 languages, is active in 55 countries and puts on 70 seminars a year for groups of visiting educators.
Indirect costs include the value of time spent by participants visiting educators and other health care providers and the loss of productivity due to illness.
Over the past 10 years, this course has received a total of 3.1 million visits from educators and learners around the world.
Last fall, she spent two weeks in residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, performing concertos and leading community events, including school appearances, visits with educators and chamber music performances with student musicians.
Dr. Whalen, who is also the executive director of study abroad at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., said overseas site visits for educators, when given in exchange for student participation in a program, crossed an ethical line.
There is no clamoring of parents trying to game a spot for their kids in a lottery, no screening of applicants, no visits from educators hoping to learn the secret of the school's success, no shadow philanthropist supplying Kindles to all of its students.
Site visits for educators can provide context and a deeper understanding to help grasp the enormity of the atrocities perpetrated across Europe.
