Looking Abroad For A Few Good Teachers
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Foreign educators are filling a need in one city's classrooms--and
getting a crash course in cultural diversity
By TA-NEHISI PAUL COATES / BALTIMORE
Posted Monday, Nov. 21, 2005
Like most Kindergarten classrooms, Carol Espiritu's is decorated with
cheerfully colored posters illustrating the months and seasons, stacks
of picture books and imaginative drawings. Espiritu's tiny students,
like all the kids at the Dr. Bernard Harris Sr. Elementary School in
Baltimore, Md., are neatly dressed in the official school
uniform--white shirts and blue pants for the boys, white blouses and
blue skirts for the girls. In fact, the only thing out of the ordinary
in Room 122 this fall is Espiritu. She is one of three new teachers at
the school recruited from the Philippines to help fill Baltimore's
yawning teacher shortage. "I had to get out of my comfort zone," says
Espiritu, who taught for 14 years at an exclusive private school in
Manila. "I had to try something new."
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