As a career public educator, I have long advocated, both behind the scenes, and right out front, for public school teachers so that we can give our students the world-class education they deserve.

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My passion to become a public school educator began on the basketball court.

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"The kibbutz has changed vastly in the last decade and a half, from a community dependent solely on agriculture to a diverse, entrepreneurial and innovative economy which still retains its core values of sharing, " said Leah Kayman, educator and public relations director at Ketura.

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Accepting for Jacques Barzun, Marguerite Barzun. (Applause.) The 2010 National Humanities Medal to Jacques Barzun for his distinguished career as a scholar, educator, and public intellectual.

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Robichaux, now 45 and a longtime Louisiana educator, had become the principal of KIPP Phillips Preparatory, a new public charter school that had opened for summer school in July 2005 in New Orleans' poverty-stricken Seventh Ward.

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