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When long-time educator Jane Walters retires for what looks like the last time this week, Memphis and Tennessee will lose a paragon of public education at its best.
Walters will be remembered for her dedication to the belief that children in Memphis City Schools can learn and that they can excel at things beyond the three "R's." While principal at Craigmont High School she put that belief to work by starting the city school district's first optional program for international studies. The program offered German, Spanish, French, Latin, Japanese and Russian. By the 1980s, she had set up a sister school in Russia.See the full content of this document
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An Education Paragon
She was Tennessee's first fema...
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