Reply #50: His mom "taught a littlle"

[mzteris]

and his sister is a teacher.

Maya Soetoro-Ng is an alumna of Barnard College in Manhattan, New York. She received an M.A. degree in secondary language studies and an M.A. degree in English from New York University<9> and a Ph.D degree in international comparative education from the University of Hawaii.<10>

. .. She was a high-school history teacher at La Pietra: Hawaii School for Girls in Honolulu, Hawaii. She also taught night classes at the University of Hawaii.<13> She previously taught and developed curriculum at The Learning Project, an alternative public middle school in New York City, from 1996–2000.<14>

... Maya's Doctorate research at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu focused on Comparative International Education, and involved a comparative study between an international school in Indonesia where she taught and spent time, and a school in New York. She particularly looked at qualitative differences, interviewing students, staff, and other people involved in the two schools.


On his mom: http://www.barack-obama-timeline.com/ann_dunham/