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To: JohnM who wrote (130683)	8/8/2005 8:56:17 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Respond to of 793858

In the '70's she quit a tenured job w/Chicago and opened a storefront school on the Chicago South side - tough turf! Parents had to pay, but when they couldn't serious students were accommodated anyway.In short order, her student's were excelling; grade schoolers familiar with Shakespeare, trig, etc. Google her if interested. Because she has such success with ghetto students, TV and print gave her a brief moment of fame, then having writ..... Your assumptions (here about rote methods wrt Marva) are - well, silly at best. Again, the problem with the teaching industry are that they don't have incentives to learn from and build on the giants in their field.