Article: Love the good teachers, national treasures.(Column)

At the start of her 25th year of high school teaching, Ellen Rogers feels like celebrating. It's the rebirth of the school year, another chance to love kids in a way that may nudge them to be loving to others. It's also the challenge of reaching the student who's been labeled unreachable, plus the purest joy of all: throwing out ideas and seeing who takes them where.

Rogers, who teaches a course called "Problems of Democracy" at Port Huron Northern High School in Michigan, received an honor a few days ago. Administrators asked her. to give a motivational talk to 32 first-year teachers coming into the town's two high schools. It was a seasoned old pro passsing on a ...

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