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...implications for society are as plain as chalk marks on a blackboard: the relatively high cost of the original program -- $5,000 a year for each preschooler -- was actually a bargain. The results at Ypsilanti are echoing louder across the country, not only in facilities for the underprivileged but also in preschools everywhere. Twenty-seven states now fund prekindergarten facilities -- a huge jump from only seven in 1979. And the early-childhood boom goes on unabated. Some 1,700 nationally accredited public programs operate in the U.S.; an additional 4,300 are actively seeking accreditation...
Pale sunlight streams into the spare classroom of Richard Clark, an Anglo English teacher. Clark, an austere-looking man with a crew cut and a deeply lined face, has been teaching at the academy for nine years. At the blackboard, several sophomores are diagraming sentences. A timid girl with glasses identifies a predicate phrase modifying a compound verb. When she's finished, Clark scans the room and says with a wry smile, "Paulette, you're the next volunteer." Paulette, a tiny girl with a large pompadour, dutifully marches to the blackboard and, in a spidery hand, diagrams a sentence with...
...office a decade later, Fisher reenacts his response to these officials. Suddenly springing to his feet, Fisher strides across the room and scribbles furiously on a blackboard. He draws two-columned chart with the headings "If yes" and "If no," representing whether Iran should release American hostages...
...putting visions on a seminar blackboard and bringing them into reality in this nation (which is low on money) and at this time (when the people in a single congressional district number more than the 413,000 in the Buffalo Commons area) are dramatically different things. The commons idea is a stranger in the departments of Agriculture and the Interior. If George Bush had heard of the concept, he would have posed with a buffalo. He hasn...
Casually attired in khaki trousers and a gray polo shirt, math teacher Tony Dula scribbles an algebra problem on a sheet of clear plastic and, using an overhead projector, throws the image on the blackboard for his class of 10th- graders. "O.K.," he says, "you have two minutes." Heads bow and sneakered feet tap softly on the floor. Suddenly a student in the second row breaks the silence. "Oooooh! I found it!," she cries. "I feel good!" Another girl waves her hand wildly from the back of the room. "Mr. Dula! Mr. Dula...