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How to be a teacher is about how to live. The public perception in this country is that anyone can be a teacher or run a school, and that is a grievous misconception. It is crippling our schools and students. It is not about advanced degrees or credentials, either. Test scores are irrelevant. All the sacred cows we hear about in the media are not sacred at all. Great teachers like Socrates and Jesus did not have classrooms. They did not have advanced degrees or licenses to teach. Some scholars believe they may have been illiterate. So what makes them great? They lived the life. Teachers model proper behavior for students. They demonstrate on a daily basis that they are lifelong learners, maintaining a sense of awe and wonder about the world. For them, teaching is not a job but a calling, and they approach each and every class with a sense of joy and vigor. They do not sit behind their desks. They do not look for an opportunity to do less. They are out in the thick of things with their ...

Here's an interesting aspect of the immigration story. Chris Kirkham, writing on the Huffington Post , details the huge windfall at private for-profit prison management companies as a result of the increased focus on immigration crimes. And these are not violent crimes, nor are the perpetrators facing deportation. Most of the inmates at these prisons are in a legal purgatory for committing the innocuous federal offense of simply crossing the border. According to Kirkham, these cases are being filed in record numbers. "For three years in a row, more people have been convicted of immigration offenses than of any other type of federal crime," says Kirkham, quoting sources on the United States Sentencing Commission.  This represents a "dramatic shift in the makeup of the U.S. criminal justice system, which has been dominated by drug crimes in recent decades." This tidal wave of immigration offenders "flow into the federal prison system" and are housed in ...