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2003 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners Announced
ccnull writes "This year's list of 24 MacArthur Fellows has been released. Each winner of the so-called 'Genius Grant' receives $500,000, no strings attached. 2003's winners include a blacksmith, a biomedical engineer, a computation geometer, a biophysicist, a nurse, and a short story writer 'crafting witty, experimental prose.'"
How long has it been since a teacher got a decent raise?
Not nearly as long as most people think. 44k average nationwide isn't bad at all. It's more than I made in tech support or programming.
The starving teacher myth is yet another bit of Leftist propoganda served up some people in the media, and it's a very persistant myth. It's almost as persistant as the starving elderly myth. I wager the elderly are, on average, actually the wealthiest segment of society. Lobbying groups like the AARP and pandering politicians want you to believe these interest groups are "starving". It just isn't true.
Of course there are exceptions. There always are. It's just that the "starving arborists" don't have a lobbying group like the NEA or AARP.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?