With few job openings available for graduating seniors, recruiters are an especially welcome sight on college campuses these days. When Josh Dickson, a recruiter at Teach for America, would show up at liberal-arts colleges this year, the earnest 25-year-old would hear student after student explain that their most urgent desire had always been to teach in a low-income community
Tag Archives: classmates
Manhattan Hellhole
The pit was dark, almost unbearably claustrophobic. The dirt walls, where captors unknown to him had shackled his arms and legs, were so close together that he found it impossible to stretch out his lanky 6-ft.
Is Any Place Safe?
When students went back to school last week at Permian High in Odessa, Texas, they wondered what had happened to the place over the summer. Gone was their old wide-open campus, now surrounded by a security fence with controlled entry points and clusters of surveillance cameras.
Nepal’s Fragile Peace: Will the War’s Missing Persons Ever Be Found?
While visiting home during a holiday in 2002, Rajendra Tharu awoke in his parent’s house to find himself surrounded by childhood classmates. But they had not come to welcome him back.
Pay for Grades: Should Parents Bribe Kids in School?
In junior high school, one of my classmates had a TV addiction — back before it was normal.
‘Endemic’ Abuse in Irish Schools Run by Catholic Church
James Quinn and his classmates called it the blackjack — five layers and 18 in.
Students: Chicago nightclub barred blacks
Students from Washington University say they have complained to state and federal agencies that a Chicago, Illinois, nightclub barred six African-American members from their senior class trip celebration while admitting nearly 200 white classmates.
Girls sell sex in Hong Kong to earn shopping money
She doesn’t want to be identified, except by her nickname “Sze,” and she has a secret past. Her father doesn’t know what she did as a 16-year-old, and she hopes he never finds out
Weighing the Risks of Mass Vaccinations
Like most 14-year-old girls, Natalie Morton probably didn’t spend too much time worrying about cervical cancer. But along with all of her female classmates at the Blue Coat Church of England school in Coventry, she received a vaccine on Sept
Students launch camera to edge of space, snap pics of Earth
Oliver Yeh is the kind of guy who cooks up ideas so kooky, so out-of-this-world, that even his fellow MIT students tend to roll their eyes when they hear them.