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...nation in embracing such tests, most kindergartens now go the full day, yet some have eliminated recess or limited it to 15 minutes a day. "It's a mistake to focus exclusively on academic readiness," says Stephen Hinshaw, chair-elect of the psychology department at University of California, Berkeley. "Even more vital than early reading," he says, "is the learning of play skills, which form the foundation of cognitive skills." Hinshaw points out that in Europe, kids often aren't taught to read until age 7. Insisting that they read at 5, he says, "puts undue pressure on a child...
...right of every student to a college education, regardless of ability to pay, and created a multicampus public institution that became a blueprint for state universities across the nation. But his reputation was tarnished in 1964 when he was caught in the cross-fire between student protesters at Berkeley and a Board of Regents that wanted him to take a hard line. He was ousted three years later by Governor Ronald Reagan...
Civil rights scholar and Harvard Law School (HLS) professor Christopher F. Edley Jr. has been appointed to lead the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, a program that is facing a budget crunch and has recently come under fire for failing to promote diversity among students and faculty members...
...Getting rid of Chick-fil-A is a liberal Harvard conspiracy designed to enforce Berkeley-style health food on all of us,” Litinsky said...
...Vietnam War, the pressure for action among the self-designated “Asian Americans” resulted in the Third World Liberation Front—a series of strikes in solidarity with other students of color at San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley from 1968-1969. The following year, the first Asian American studies programs were established through the ethnic studies departments at San Francisco State, Berkeley and later the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles...