Business Education

Low enrollment in some high school programs will mean layoffs for five teachers, cuts from full- to half-time jobs for two, and reassignments for two others for the next school year.The nine teachers affected are just over one-third of the 24 teachers who received notices in April that they might face layoffs, cutbacks in hours or reassignment."The goal is not to wipe programs out but to strike a balance," said James R. McGowan. As associate superintendent for administration and instruction, McGowan is responsible for staffing decisions.

Michael Reiss wants to teach.So determined is the Yale graduate to find a place in a classroom that he drove four hours from New Haven, Conn., to this college town in northeastern Pennsylvania to attenda job fair for teachers."

The only thing better than a little media attention to reverse the fortunes of a struggling enterprise is a lot of it.The armed forces reported a significant increase in would-be recruits at recruitment centers after the release of the blockbuster military film "Top Gun" several years ago, and gymnastics schools popped up like mushrooms overnight in the United States after the dynamic display of Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut in the 1972 Summer Olympics.But...

It was a long summer for former Glen Burnie High business education teacher Joyce Coleman. In June she was laid off after 18 years in the school. She wasn't sure what she'd do next.Coleman found solace amid doubt in the thought of 200 students protesting her layoff in front of the school and their parents pleading with board members to not fire her.And on Sept. 4, she was asked to return to the classroom. This time, it would be in the county's vocational education program."If this hadn't worked out, I would have probably taken a neighbor's offer to work with an alternative program for young adults that people have given up on," Coleman said.

The College of Business and Management at the University of Maryland College Park, with the blessing of the U.S. Department of Education, took a step yesterday toward its decade-old goal of being a leading training ground for globally competitive executives.The UM business school announced that it has received a $240,000 grant from the department to act as a national Center for International Business Education and Research. As a recipient of the three-year renewable grant, the school joins an elite fraternity including business schools from 16 universities.