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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
Teach for America’s Relentless PursuitsReviewed By Stuart Nachbar
Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America by Donna Foote follows the story of a year in the life of a South Los Angeles high school through the experiences of four Teach for America (TFA) corps members (CMs) on their immersion into high school teaching. Reading Relentless left me with the impression that the first weeks as a TFA teacher are like drowning in a Gatorade bath in Green Bay, Wisconsin; it’s a jolt to the system. The deep immersion into teaching also includes securing emergency credentials to be considered a qualified teacher per No Child Left Behind.
 Relentless Pursuit
TFA has succeeded because it works with school districts in 36 cities to place CMs in teaching positions traditionally credential teachers don’t want. The alternative is to hire permanent substitutes or teachers who have failed to be hired elsewhere. TFA has produced studies that their recruits are more effective than the alternative; no surprise, because they were top students and have more motivation to succeed. That’s no surprise; bright people who want to do a job will perform better than people who don’t. TFA’s CMs serve only a two-year hitch, though almost two-thirds of TFA’s 12,000 alumni are in education or working towards an advanced degree in that field. |
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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
College to Career--News Millennial Can Use By Stuart Nachbar  by Lindsey Pollak
Based on past experience, I venture to guess that only one-third of most graduating college seniors venture inside their career center before they have received their diplomas. That creates a strong market for career books at the bookstores; approximately 1.5 million people received bachelor’s degrees last year and probably 1 million of them did not know what they wanted to do. Lindsey Pollak’s Getting from College to Career, 90 Things to Do Before You Join The Real World is one book targeted at this market, though the author’s intentions appear to be broader, to get the undecided student to act faster. Pollak, who took a round-about approach to becoming a writer, starts by using herself as an example. She originally decided to apply to law school because that was what she was told that graduates “do” with a liberal arts degree then, she backed out and networked, first into a Rotary-sponsored scholarship to a graduate woman’s studies program, then later into a writing position on a woman’s business Web site. |
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 |
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If you've read anything at all about Content Management Systems (CMS), you'll probably know at least three things: CMS are the most exciting way to do business, CMS can be really, I mean really, complicated and lastly Portals are absolutely, outrageously, often unaffordably expensive.
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