Fiveyears, workingexperience in teachingEnglish at amiddle schoolcoupled witheducationalbackground specialized in EnglishInstructionatGuangzhouTeachers'College.
My mother who'd wanted to go to teachers' college but couldn't because of the expense, who'd lived at home working as an office secretary after finishing high school, who'd kept us from feeling poor during the worst of the Depression by budgeting the earnings my father turned over to her each Friday as efficiently as she ran the household was thirty-six.
In 1982, Byrd, who also had a law degree, received his doctorate from New York's Teachers College, Columbia University, and turned his attention from performing to education.