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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

On Facebook, Telling Teachers How Much They Meant - NYTimes.com

On Facebook, Telling Teachers How Much They Meant - NYTimes.com

Darci Hemleb Thompson, 49, reconnected with a former teacher from Long Island, Alice D'Addario, through Facebook.
Nicole Fruge for The New York Times
Darci Hemleb Thompson, 49, reconnected with a former teacher from Long Island, Alice D'Addario, through Facebook.
People who have been out of school for decades are expressing sentiments they dared not express in their youth.
ON EDUCATION
Julianne Carlson, a graduate of Yale, taught a prekindergarten class in Spanish last week at an elementary school in Houston.

A Chosen Few Are Teaching for America

Teach for America has become an elite brand that will help build a résumé, and in a bad economy, guarantee a good paycheck.
THE APPRAISAL
Based on the advice of an educational consultant, Jonathan and Ann Binstock bought an Upper West Side apartment near Public School 87.

Parents’ Real Estate Strategy: Schools Come First

Developers who sell apartments near good schools should chip in more to help build classrooms, parents say.