Sentences with phrase «idealistic teachers»

After years of trashing the organization, NEA recently offered TFA a twig - sized olive branch, but even that is rejected by many local unions because an army of bright, young, idealistic teachers poses a threat to the old guard.

Most fall into either the formulaic, feel - good, inspirational teacher genre, where idealistic teachers heroically and unrealistically buck the system and change lives; or they represent teachers as dolts.

EW: What single piece of advice would you give the «novice, idealistic teachers» entering classrooms for the first time?

The attitude of idealistic teachers toward this deep - seated and powerful element in our nature has often been one of severe repression.

I saw «To Sir, With Love,»» he chuckles, recounting the 1967 classic in which Sidney Poitier plays an idealistic teacher who wins over students at a roughhouse London school.

An open letter to the idealistic teacher in Chicago who may have defied the teachers union by not striking on April 1st.

Not exact matches

In amongst all the sleaze is a drum - playing Prime Minister, a cunning and manipulative special adviser and an idealistic former teacher.

Idealistic young teachers may be attracted to the challenge of charters — but bills pile up and payday is payday.

An idealistic, straight - edge teacher is drawn down a horrid rabbit hole by an honors student when he gives him a B + on a paper.

An idealistic English teacher (Matthew Modine) helps a convicted ex-Black Panther (Obba Babatunde) prove his innocence after he's wrongly imprisoned for a murder he claims he didn't commit.

She'll play the «idealistic and fair - mined» new English teacher.

Auggie's homeroom teacher is so idealistic he gave up Wall Street for education.

The nation's capital had become something of a magnet for well - educated, idealistic young teachers like Christopher, many of them drawn to the rapidly expanding network of public charter schools.

Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas.

The sad truth is, there aren't enough Einsteins or former military officers — or even idealistic young graduates — who want to become public school teachers.»

The organization, which launched its first cohort of teachers in 1990, has succeeded in harnessing that idealistic impulse.

While critics argue that two - year stints aren't long enough for idealistic young adults to have a real effect before heading off to, say, law school, nearly two - thirds of TFA alums remain in education, half of those as classroom teachers.

NEW YORK — When Mike Feinberg, then a recent University of Pennsylvania graduate, and Dave Levin, just out of Yale, met at a 1992 summer teacher training institute in Los Angeles, they were typical of young people signing up for the Teach for America program: smart, idealistic, confident.

They tend to attract idealistic principals and teachers with a passion to make a difference.

I entered the teaching profession with an idealistic view of what the country thought of its nation's teachers, but have found that the profession has lost its prestige.

Lewis is saying that TFA, an organization that places exceptional, idealistic young teacher - leaders in the most challenging schools in the country is responsible for killing kids.

Because TFA, which places idealistic young teachers in tough - to - staff schools, takes funding from the Walton Foundation, which of course is the philanthropic arm of Walmart, which, according to USAS, is trying to privatize public education, which it shouldn't do because it will cost the teachers unions countless members, which will destroy their bottom line... or something like that.

In Brill's telling, the education class war pits a heroic group of entrepreneurial philanthropists, highly successful hedge fund billionaires, and idealistic Ivy Leaguers who join Teach for America against somewhat grubby and grasping rank - and - file public school teachers and their union leaders, who often put their own selfish interests above those of the children.

When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin met at a 1992 summer teacher training institute in Los Angeles, they were typical of young people signing up for the Teach for America program: smart, idealistic, confident.

A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life - changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta.