Word: childes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mother of both a gifted child and one with learning disabilities, I am very grateful for the special-education opportunities that have usually been available for my learning-disabled child. However, the needs of a gifted child to be identified at an early age and appropriately challenged are important...
...tends to perpetuate the questionable notion that a high IQ is synonymous with giftedness. It only tells us that a person has the potential for gifted behavior, but unless intelligence is combined with creativity and commitment, and shows up in performance, we have no rationale for assuming that a child is gifted...
...know about what Rickie Lee calls "extensive education in music at home." Born in Chicago, hard by Wrigley Field, the third child of a couple "in the restaurant business" (which, from the ironic Jones argot, translates as "waiter and waitress"), Rickie Lee had a vagabond childhood. Her parents split up, reunited, drifted from state to state and job to job. Her father sang a lot, wrote his daughter a little tune called The Moon Is Made of Gold ("So don't feel bad because the sun went down/ The moon is made of gold"), which she includes...
...bitter and theatrical. One night some parents carried in a child's coffin: while placard-bearing children blew out candles, a parent read a statement foretelling the death of a school because the board had marked the principal for dismissal. Other nights featured debates pitting blacks against whites, those who valued music instruction against those who wanted foreign languages. It was neighborhood against neighborhood, teachers against administration, north Evanston vs. south Evanston. "We may have generated more hostility and more unfulfilled expectations by opening debate than if we had never asked for opinions," says Board Member Mary Anne Wexler...
...Truffaut presents the definitive and final portrait of Antoine in Love on the Run. Charming, irresponsible and utterly romantic, Doinel, the director's alter ego, makes love, writes, philosophizes, eats and drinks all with the same gallic enthusiasm. We know at the end that Antoine will remain forever the child who said "if I tell the truth they don't believe...