Mass. 'Bonus Babies' Get Crash Course
Fall River, Mass.
The nail-biting was almost audible when a group of teachers-in-training gathered here at Durfee High School for one of the last seminars in their crash course on education.
Alison Thibodeau, a former substitute teacher with a graduate degree in economics, confessed that not one of the 9th and 10th graders she'd been teaching this summer managed to pass a quiz she'd just given. And Matthew Stuck, a Coast Guard lieutenant who's leaving the service to teach mathematics, agonized that his recent lesson on linear equations seemed lost on two-thirds of his students.
"I've done some stage directing," offered William Pett, another would-be teacher, "and I can tell you, you always wish you had...
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