Blind Mountain Climber Erik Weihenmayer Conquers Everest
To the Editor::
This was a very encouraging story. It shows that despite any kind of disability, you can succeed in life.
Frances Priester
Union, NJ
Helping New Teachers Survive
To the Editor:
I am incredibly comforted by a failed teaching experience. I was trained as more of a director of instruction than a facilitator. I had problems that became problems for others. Your insight has been helpful.
Melinda
Neptune City, NJ
Budget Cuts
To the Editor:
From an educator’s point of view: The cuts that have been made to education are absolutely insane. The federal government continues to raise standard for public education, but lowers the monies needed to make these standards work. I have worked in the public education system for 17 years with mostly low socio-economic students. It is rare that their needs are provided for adequately (even during the best of times). The government does not seem to understand that these children may not only lack the classes they need to be successful, but they have little or no resources in their home environments.
I am in Florida and our high stakes testing may be improving education in order to pass tests but there are more and more students who are just drifting away and most of those students barely have a fighting chance from the start due to economic conditions of their families. As an educator I continue to advocate for these students and encourage them. I have organized Christmases for the underpriviliged and stood by students whose parents were dying. I have shouldered the tears of a 17 year old as yet another of his friends were shot or killed. I have driven these students to shelters after their parents had abandoned them.
I hope this brings a degree of reality to the forefront and provides a window to the education of the poor.
Diane Rhodes
Tampa, FL
Dr. Jerome Bruner Speaks at Columbia Teachers College: “Educating a Sense of the Possible”
To the Editor:
I enjoyed reading this article. It is informative and to the point!
Paula Kuhlmann, Rothschild, WI
Integrating Ex-Inmates Into Society
To the Editor:
My daughter will be released soon from the women’s prison in Iowa and she wants to go back to school. Please point me in the right direction to help further her education. She will be staying with me and I cannot afford to pay for her schooling. Thank you.
Kathy Corbin
Clinton, IA
Dr. Martin Florsheim: Visionary in Educating Deaf & Hearing Children
To the Editor:
This article is great. I would like to contact him via email. Thanks.
Laurene Simms
Washington, DC
