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"Teach: Tony Danza": The New Reality Series

CJ Westerberg, September 27, 2010 4:01 PM

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"Who's the Teach?"
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Not exactly what Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had in mind with today's appeal during NBC News "Education Nation" for a "call to service" to the next generation of teachers to enter the teacher profession:

"Talk about reinventing yourself. At 59, Tony Danza - sitcom star, talk-show host, Broadway song-and-dance man - decided to try his hand at teaching English in the biggest public high school in Philadelphia. The results, featuring the actor versus 26 skeptical 10th-graders, have been captured for the entertaining, provocative, and surprisingly inspirational A&E reality show Teach: Tony Danza, premiering Oct. 1. Danza recently sat down with Robert Masello to tell PARADE what he learned about education, teenagers - and himself."

 

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Now, keeping in mind these fourfold interests - interest in conversation, or communication; in inquiry, or finding out things; in making things or construction; and in artistic expression - we may say they are natural resources, the uninvested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child..
John Dewey, The School and Society, 1900
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