Word: after-school
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After flying into Memphis and visiting the Civil Rights Museum, the group stationed itself in Jackson, Mississippi. There, students spent their mornings listening to speakers and their afternoons volunteering with the after-school program at Stewpot Community Services...
...Education is now a key part of his platform, which emphasizes the benefits of after-school programs...
...League average: Yale has 249; Princeton “more than 200.” And all of these groups, I am willing to bet, have their own robust, bracketed e-mail lists. Big fish from small-to-moderate-sized ponds are now all swimming around together and founding After-School programs right and left. Academic prowess aside, Harvard admissions parlance divides students into “well-rounded”—those “who have contributed in many different ways to their schools and communities” and “well-lopsided?...
...school tutors is preschoolers and kindergartners, whose parents are hoping that if their kids learn to read before first grade, it will ultimately help them get into college and get good jobs. Anxious moms and dads are no longer satisfied with traditional nursery school, which many see as a glorified romper room that focuses too much on learning through play. And of course, after years of Baby Einstein marketing, some parents have become convinced that the more math and reading skills their tots master, the better. Srinivas Rao, a veterinarian in Columbia, Md., began sending his daughter Sanjana to after...
Megan Coulter, a Mascoutah, Ill., eighth-grader, served two after-school detentions last week. Her offense? Hugging two friends and therefore violating the Mascoutah Middle School's ban on public displays of affection...