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{weblog_name} - Better Teachers, Better Schools
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When my late sister, Enid, was a senior at Forest Park High School in the early 1960s, she committed to attending what was then called Towson State Teachers College. There was back then a program where students who would commit to teaching for two years out of college would have all or most of their tuition paid by the state. Enid went on to graduate magna cum laude from Towson. She would teach for two years in the city school system, one year at Forest Park High School, the other at Edmonson. Then she would move to New York, where she’d go on to earn her master’s and doctorate at City College of New York. Of great concern to many parents of yeshiva or day school parents here in Baltimore is the issue of quality teachers. Unfortunately, finding and… read more