CNN 2010-05-21

All right. A Rhode Island High School that fired all of its teachers now plans to give them their jobs back. The news comes after Central Falls High School and the teacher’s union agreed on some new standards. Nearly a hundred teachers were fired because students were underperforming. Now, part of this agreement calls for longer hours and more afterschool tutoring sessions. The teachers will be voting on this deal today.

And a Houston area teacher now apologizing for repeatedly hitting a student in her classroom. Have you seen this video? Look at this with me. This is back on April 29, caught on a cellphone video. You see that. Sheri Lynn Davis. She is actually the teacher in the blue shirt. The student on the ground, 13 years old. Davis, by the way, fired last week.

'I’m without excuse for my actions, ‘cause I know this has been a painful situation, an incident that I truly regard. If I could go back again, I would go things much, much differently. '

While Davis’ attorney says the case will be highlighting security problems at that charter school. By the way, the particular incident started after students locked Davis out of her classroom while she was breaking up fight in that hallway. The boy’s family is suing Davis and suing the school.

A California man finally free after serving 16 years for a crime he didn’t commit. This is Reggie Cole. He actually walked out of a California prison over the weekend, thanking the California Innocence¹ Project and law school students who worked diligently² on this case. Attorneys were able to successfully argue that Cole’s 1994 murder conviction was based on evidence that was simply fabricated.

'It takes again a very special strong kind of person to make it through 16 years of incarceration³ and keep fighting for their freedom.'

'The only way I can think to repay them is to go out to society and prove that I’ve spent these last 16 years, preparing myself to be free.'

Cole’s life sentence was actually thrown out last July but he still had to finish a manslaughter sentence for killing⁴ a fellow inmate⁵. He now says he wants to get his GED to study…
 

1 innocence   

n.无罪；天真；无害

参考例句：

• There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
• The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。

2 diligently   

ad.industriously;carefully

参考例句：

• He applied himself diligently to learning French. 他孜孜不倦地学法语。
• He had studied diligently at college. 他在大学里勤奋学习。

3 incarceration   

n.监禁，禁闭；钳闭

参考例句：

• He hadn't changed much in his nearly three years of incarceration. 在将近三年的监狱生活中，他变化不大。 来自辞典例句
• Please, please set it free before it bursts from its long incarceration! 请你，请你将这颗心释放出来吧！否则它会因长期的禁闭而爆裂。 来自辞典例句

4 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

5 inmate   

n.被收容者；(房屋等的)居住人；住院人

参考例句：

• I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
• The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。