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...first teen parenting programs in the country. "It was first and foremost a dropout prevention initiative," says Betsy Bard, adolescent parenting program clinician. "The number one reason why women drop out is because they have no emotional support or day care...
...RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER (Bard) Americans tend to view the teenage years, from puberty to the prom, as a singular life passage. But author Thomas Hine reminds us that for most of our history, those between 13 and 19 did not move in lockstep through their education--or even attend school--and that the word teenager dates back only to 1941. "What was new about the idea of the teenager at the time the word first appeared during World War II," writes Hine, "was the assumption that all young people--regardless of their class, location or ethnicity...
...dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery. Evolution is not a peripheral subject but the central organizing principle of all biological science. No one who has not read the Bible or the Bard can be considered educated in Western traditions; so no one ignorant of evolution can understand science...
...Ashbery left Harvard to take on a post as a professor of languages and literature at Bard College, where he still teaches...
...Ashbery left Harvard to take on a post as a professor of languages and literature at Bard College, where he still teaches...