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...best make use of his latest findings on MAO-A and gang membership. If policymakers wish to prevent violence, he says, money would be better spent not hunting for gene-based drugs, say, but expanding and improving neighborhood-based intervention programs, such as early childhood education and after-school activities...
...longer school day, week or year is not the answer to reforming education. My family has three college graduates--two of whom have master's degrees--and we somehow managed to do it while getting out of school at 3 p.m. and having summers off. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the reason many poorer children don't get a good education is that education is not stressed at home. I am a teacher in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country, and the students have after-school programs and Saturday academy and even go to school...
These cuts will have a direct impact on PBHA’s funding. The association is slated to lose a $4000 grant from the Department of Public Health Youth Violence Prevention Program. It would also receive a reduced grant from the After-School and Out-of-School programs. The grant’s value would fall from...
WSSA was founded by physical-education teacher Bob Fox, who noticed how a simple hand-eye coordination drill could inspire students to compete against each other--and themselves--by improving their times. When he started offering after-school stacking workshops in 1995, the response was astonishing. "You would get a couple dozen students for a workshop on basketball or juggling, but with stacking, there were 200 kids," he recalls. Fox says his company, Speed Stacks, which charges $30 for an individual set of cups, mat and timer, has annual revenues of $4 million...
...applications. And, when so many of them have 4.0 GPAs and stellar SAT scores, Harvard has to decide what other criteria it wants to emphasize. Harvard’s lecture halls will always be awash with academic superstars. But what about its stages and playing fields and after-school programs? Harvard presents students with a bewildering array of options. It seeks people who will take advantage of them and, in so doing, come to define themselves in terms other than their academic attainments...