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MARISA JANUZZI THOMas's first memory of her rookie year teaching at a public high school involved a girl with a Game Boy. Dr. Januzzi Thomas--a Harvard
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Scholars in a Teenage Wasteland
MARISA JANUZZI THOMas's first memory of her rookie year teaching at a public high school involved a girl with a Game Boy. Dr. Januzzi Thomas -- a Harvard graduate, Columbia Ph.D. and former assistant English professor at the University of Utah -- asked the student to turn off the game and bring it up to her. The academic job market for Ph.D.'s has been bleak for years, especially in humanities and life sciences. In 2000, 1,070 new Ph.D.'s in English competed among themselves and with former graduates for 528 tenure-track assistant professorships, according to the Modern Language Association. The outlook in other fields is also discouraging. Typically, those who do not land good jobs hang on as research assistants or as poorly paid adjuncts, or they try to break into industry. A perceived lack of respect is one big reason few Ph.D.'s consider lower education. Mentors and colleagues tell them they are wasting their time. ''There's a definite sense that it's complete academic suicide,'' Dr. Januzzi Thomas says. ''If I wanted to continue on the academic track, I would have been better off working in a bookstore and writing my book.''
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Scratch and Pass
ANSWERING those mundane multiple-choice test questions can now have all the tactile thrill of an instant lottery ticket.
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Scratch and Pass
With IF AT (short for Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique; also, ''If at first you don't succeed''), the test-taker scratches a waxy coating off a small rectangle on the answer sheet with a pen cap, a dime, a fingernail, whatever's handy. A star indicates the correct answer. If wrong, the student can scratch off a second and even a third choice, earning partial credit and, says Dr. [Michael Epstein], learning in the process.
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TEACHERS
The business of hiring substitute teachers--once a low key, word-of-mouth affair and increasingly a frenetic, haphazard scramble--has just become a little more crisp. Kelly Services, whose so-called Kelly girls began pinch-hitting in the...
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Where Everything Old Can Be New Again
Not long ago, Jane Barton donned white coveralls, a harness and a hard hat and, accompanied by a professional climber and a structural engineer, rappeled off the top of the crumbling dome of the New Jersey State House dome. It was all in a day's work -- a somewhat unusual day, to be sure -- for Ms. Barton in her role as New Jersey's chief of restoration and heritage programs as she supervises the work at the State House, which was originally built in 1792.
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