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...middle of the antiwar movement, Maddux had left Tyler, Texas, and a home ruled by a proud and disciplined World War II veteran to attend Bryn Mawr College, a select Main Line liberal arts school for women. By some accounts, she never recovered from the shock and drifted like a windblown leaf through relationships and jobs after graduation. Within days of their meeting, the Unicorn carried this wounded deer back to his lair, a squalid apartment near Penn...
...called “merit aid” has made it harder for students from low- and middle-income families to attend college, since aid has not necessarily been focused on those who financially need it, according to financial aid officials...
...prepare for school. The idea, advocates said, was to create that proverbial level playing field. Today, the president of the country?s second-largest teachers? union announced a new path to that mythical leveled field, declaring that all children - middle class, working class and poor - should be eligible to attend quality pre-school programs like Head Start...
...There are so many important things that can and should happen in those early years - the foundation for literacy, the ability to attend to learning tasks and control emotions, the ability to get along with others - so many foundations for later education. Money can buy so many of the experiences kids need to succeed in school - summer camp, music lessons, computers in the home - all things advantaged kids have almost automatically. It?s all part of a larger structure and path to success. These are things disadvantaged kids simply don?t have and I believe universal preschool...
...oddities attend yoga's vogue in America. One is that the U.S. has the fittest people in the world, and the most obese. Yoga, typically, is practiced by the fit. Exercise, the care and feeding of body and possibly mind, is their second career. The folk in urgent need of yoga are the ones who are at the fast-food counter getting their fries supersize; who would rather take a pill than devote a dozen hours a week to yoga; for whom meditation is staring glassily at six hours of football each Sunday; and who might go under the surgeon...