Sat May 01 2010, 23:32 by 
WASHINGTON — In her last job in the Air Force, Tammie Langley
gave prospective pilots and navigators an introduction to aeronautics.
Four years later, Langley is in a different sort of classroom, teaching
sixth-graders in North Carolina everything from reading to math.
The settings may be radically different, but Langley said the
transition from teaching 22-year-olds to teaching 11- or 12-year-olds
had been fairly seamless. "Either way, you still have to kind of wipe
their noses a bit and kick them in the behind every now and then," said
Langley, who is in her second year at Kannapolis Intermediate School,
about 25 miles north of Charlotte.
Langley, 36, became a schoolteacher in large part because of Troops to
Teachers, a federal program that, over 15 years, has helped about
12,000 former service members move into second careers in the
classroom. Now, a bipartisan group in Congress is hoping to expand the
program to allow more veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to
sign up, while also increasing the number of places in which they could
find employment.
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gave prospective pilots and navigators an introduction to aeronautics.
Four years later, Langley is in a different sort of classroom, teaching
sixth-graders in North Carolina everything from reading to math.
The settings may be radically different, but Langley said the
transition from teaching 22-year-olds to teaching 11- or 12-year-olds
had been fairly seamless. "Either way, you still have to kind of wipe
their noses a bit and kick them in the behind every now and then," said
Langley, who is in her second year at Kannapolis Intermediate School,
about 25 miles north of Charlotte.
Langley, 36, became a schoolteacher in large part because of Troops to
Teachers, a federal program that, over 15 years, has helped about
12,000 former service members move into second careers in the
classroom. Now, a bipartisan group in Congress is hoping to expand the
program to allow more veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to
sign up, while also increasing the number of places in which they could
find employment.
Read More
