Teaching: The most important job in America

Yet again, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof knocks one out of the ballpark. This time, it's the discovery of a successful businessman named Olly Neal, who was well on his way to becoming a juvenile delinquent with no future in the segregated South, but whose meanness to a teacher was repaid with a secret favor that led to Neal's own success and the success of his own children.

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Got a job, an income, a home? Thank some teachers.

In today's edition, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof highlights in today's edition a "landmark new research paper" that concludes "the difference between a strong teacher and a weak teacher lasts a lifetime."Having a good fourth-grade teacher makes a student 1.25 percent more likely to go to college, the research suggests, and 1.25 percent less likely to get pregnant as a teenager. Each

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Kristof: Cuts mean 'education isn't for other people's children'

Columnist Nicholas Kristof published a great column in Sunday's New York Times:YAMHILL, Ore.--THE United States supports schools in Afghanistan because we know that education is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to build a country.

Alas, we've forgotten that lesson at home. All across America, school budgets are being cut, teachers laid off and education programs dismantled.

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