But as a teacher in Washington, DC, I can assure you, in the classroom, these reforms look devastating.
Martin soon found her calling not as a pop diva, but as a voice teacher, founding the Vocal Workout Singing school in 2001.
But as outsize, underfunded teacher pension and medical benefits wreak havoc on school budgets, unions in Wisconsin and elsewhere are standing on increasingly shaky ground.
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The character of St John Quartermaine is described as a pleasant but hopeless teacher.
Ms Carter also was known as a nurturing but demanding teacher to successive jazz generations.
The woman was seized on Wednesday in Hodeida on the west coast, where she works as a teacher, but is reportedly being held in Shabwa province.
She was seized by gunmen on 14 March in Hodeida on the west coast of Yemen, where she worked as a teacher, but was later moved to Shabwa province.
But as many a Christian high school teacher can attest, a little historical research shows Christians at the time of Darwin were not at all unanimous in rejecting his theory.
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He remained a teacher, but saw himself as a historian of social and political ideas.
He stayed close to government, but kept his independence, most recently as a teacher at Johns Hopkins University.
"I loved the film, getting to know David O Russell has been great, but as a novelist and as a former English teacher who loves literature, part of the fun of reading a novel is creating that world in your mind, " says Quick.
His reputation as a teacher and tactician was solid, but the Wolverines were not far removed from being one of the nation's glamour programs.
She is more of an all-rounder than Estelle Morris , a former teacher who looks like a girl guide but is as tough as an old blackboard and has done a good job of taking on the teachers' unions as a minister in the Department of Education and Employment.
His father worked as a math teacher and had the brain power, but lacked the drive, to do even more.
About 10 percent of the students attend regular classes at those schools, with an aide to help them, but 90 percent are in special classes, with student-teacher ratios as small as 1-to-1 and as large as eight students with two aides and one teacher.
Graduates are now applying hand over fist to teacher-training courses, as other jobs are scarce, but the bonanza will not long outlast the recession.
But she said that there was an element of creating a separate identity as a teacher in the classroom - a "professional persona" with a way of dressing, speaking and modelling forms of behaviour.
But he had found a New Testament at his piano teacher's and discovered, as he read it, that he seemed to know this story already.
Martha's daughter, who is the only family member to keep a slender tether to AWOL mom, doesn't understand the flight response but fills in her mother's shoes perfectly, taking care of dad and even replacing mom as kindergarten teacher.
The heroines, Jess, the fiery, red-headed school teacher, and Mercy, the innocent but feisty teenager, are so well conceived that it comes as a disappointment when the villain is such a stereotype.
After trying a number of alternatives, Ms. Willis, a preschool teacher, finally settled on a treatment available on drugstore shelves that includes honey but no drugs, as well as a saline wash for the girl's nose.
But its extra provisions, which make pupil-teacher affairs illegal, have been described by the headteachers' union as a "sledgehammer to crack a nut".
Today's primary school children tend to learn songs and lines for a play, as well as useful tools like times tables, says Mark Brown, head teacher of St Mary's Catholic Primary School in Axminster, Devon, but rarely whole poems, as their grandparents would have done.
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