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Direct linkRichard, Alan – Education Week, 2005
Through a program known as Call Me MISTER--named for Sidney Poitier's famous line in the 1967 film "In the Heat of the Night," in which he tells the Southern white sheriff that, up North, "They call me "Mister" Tibbs"--the recruitment of more young, gifted black men to teach elementary school is getting a boost.…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Leadership Training, Scholarships, Role Models
