Last year, the New York City teaching fellows program received 5,700 applications for 3,000 spots. This year the number of applicants has doubled. But who are the fellows, and how are they faring in the classroom? Also on the show: an Iraqi dissident says demonstrating against a war is OK, but not enough. And Not For Tourists' new fun tips.
Coup The Day
Faleh Jabar, research fellow at the School of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College of the University of London and author of Ayatollahs, Sufis, and Ideologues: State, Religion, and Social Movements in Iraq (Saqi Books, London, 2002) and Tribes and Power in the Middle East (Saqi Books, London, 2002) wants ...
Fellowship of the Chalk
First year New York Teaching Fellows Jesse Cervantes, a 5th grade homeroom teacher at CES 58 in the Bronx, and Barbara Martucci, a 6th grade homeroom teacher in Manhattan, on the trials and tribulations of their first year as a teacher in the New York City public school ...
New Fun Tips
Rob Tallia and Jane Pirone, editor and publisher respectively of Not For Tourists (Happy Mazza Media, 2003), on the necessities of New York life