Teachers from Philippines arrive in Boston to teach math and science***Boston Teachers Union president Edward Doherty said he supports the city's hiring of foreign teachers if officials can't find anyone qualified locally. That's the case, Joyce said.'' We have an obligation to children to find the best math teachers we can find, wherever we can find them,'' he said.
At first it seemed as though the Philippine teachers wouldn't make it. Bureaucratic problems with obtaining visas for the teachers delayed their arrivalfor several weeks. US Representative Michael Capuano and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, both Massachusetts Democrats, worked with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to speed up the process.***
To solve students' math problems, eucators go to school - Boosting teacher skills seen as key*** The report also recommends that colleges and universities boost their math requirements for education majors. Many schools require no more than a single math course for future teachers. ``It's a vicious cycle,'' Fortmann said. ``People don't learn math very well in school, they avoid math in college, and the cycle continues. What we're hoping to do here is break the cycle.'' ***
MOVED: Veteran Edison High School teachers, from left, Ta Shina Nelloms, Rebecca Calvert, Shawn DeNight, Terry Lewis, Meghan Hauptli and Kathy Rosenthal Humphrey have been involuntarily transferred to other schools. JOSHUA PREZANT/FOR THE HERALD
3 F's, they're out: Edison sees teacher shake-up*** While the district does not have access to the standardized test scores of individual teachers' students, it can review results by subject and grade, she said. Since reading scores fell at Edison -- only 3 percent of freshmen and 4 percent of seniors were classified at least proficient in 2003 -- they decided to shake up the English department.***
Math and science yield the beauties of truth.
From Dewey on, the entire modern educational establishment has been so "practical" they've ignore the real, living springs of human motivation. 10 years olds do not plan for their future 15 years down the line, worrying over what their income will be. Nor are they trained puppies who do whatever they are told to do for a pat on the head and a cookie, or any other form of "self esteem". Will some do things just because they are challenging, or to be better at it than the kid next to them? A tiny fraction, who can sometimes try to excel at all the wrong things instead of the right ones.
If young men and women do not have an appetite for truth, none of the rest is going to matter. If the teachers and parents don't so much as believe in such a thing, let alone consider it important, or beautiful, or the root of a moral life which is itself joyous and beautiful, then only those who can discover such things all by themselves even when they are 10 years old will really learn. I said an appetite. If a kid doesn't need truth like he needs oxygen, there is something wrong with him, and probably with those around him too.