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Philip M. Grant '94 also says he senses a real need for the association's services. Grant directs Keylatch, an afterschool program with weekend trips for children in the Villa Victoria and Tent City housing projects...
...void and raises a question: For all Charren's efforts, has children's TV got any better? In some ways, as Charren readily admits, it is worse. In the 1970s, partly because of Charren's lobbying, the networks added a host of informational shows for children, from ABC's Afterschool Specials to CBS's newsmagazine for kids, 30 Minutes. During the Reagan years, however, government regulation eased, and most of those shows were canceled or scaled back. Though PBS and cable have added greatly to the diversity of programming for children, network and syndicated fare, which still accounts...
Teenagers who are struggling to juggle demanding academic schedules, friendships and dating, and sometimes afterschool jobs, are horrified by the idea of nine-plus hours of sleep. "My God, how would I have time to do anything?" protests Kimberly Erlich, 15, of Van Nuys, Calif. "That would mean going to sleep at 8 p.m. I can't imagine that." Kimberly tries to get at least seven hours...
TESTING DIRTY (ABC, Oct. 18, 4 p.m. EDT). In this well-told Afterschool Special, a high school athlete is suspended after failing an inaccurate drug test, dramatizing the pitfalls of drug-abuse-prevention programs...
...world in Kenya to teach school children, to committees which shelter the homeless. I do not consider myself a "20-year-old with noble intentions," but someone who has spent a great deal of time at PBH during the last three years working with the homeless, counselling in an afterschool program, and directing, raising funds for, and counselling in a summer camp program for kids in Dorchester. In his 16th Baccaulaureate Address last June 9th President Bok told the Class of '87, "I have watched you teaching in the basements of housing projects and have never been so proud...