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...have observed that plenty of children??get left behind. The needs of students with no hope of passing proficiency tests and those who will certainly pass are largely ignored. Pity the poor child who just barely fails. He is prodded with extra tutoring morning, noon and night in the hope that his scores will cross into the light. As a 33-year veteran music teacher, I also notice how the arts and other subjects are sometimes disregarded. We are short-changing the multiple intelligences that our children possess...
By the time children??turn 18, they have spent only 13% of their waking lives in the classroom. Their habits of mind, motivation and muscles have much more to do with that other 87%. But try telling that to an Ivy-educated mom and dad whose kids aren't doing well. It can't be the genes, Mom and Dad conclude, so it must be the school. "It's the bright children who aren't motivated who are most frustrating for parents and teachers," says Nancy McGill, a past president of the Iowa Talented and Gifted Association. "Parents...
...humor, modesty, patience?are the attributes of fatherhood at its best. And from all appearances Reagan would seem to have been the compassionate father, the father to turn to in times of grief and disarray; the father of rich stories and silly jokes. Instead, his relationship with all four children???Maureen and Mike, his children with Jane Wyman, and Patti and Ron, his children with Nancy?seems to be that of deliberately created distances. The physical distances, the fact that the children were shipped off to boarding schools at young ages, seem an adjunct of the emotional distances?though...
They indeed have grown up, and in some ways?also like children???have grown away. The economic change is particularly dramatic. The 1950s and most of the 1960s were a kind of golden age in the alliance, when business goals and interests were shared to an extraordinary extent. But today, in the words of Francis Wilcox, director of the Atlantic Council of the U.S., "the other allies have different energy needs from ours and even different dependencies...
...seen riding in the trunks of crowded automobiles, sitting with the open trunk doors curving over their heads like umbrellas. At Aadloun, a town well north of the Litani River, two Mercedes taxis packed with families fleeing the fighting were ambushed by an Israeli reconnaissance party; men, women and children???14 in all?were slaughtered by machine guns and rockets (a fin from one of them was found, bearing Hebrew letters). The sight was ghastly: flesh hanging out of windows, bullet holes gouged in the doors, a child's charred arm on the road. Palestinians guided traffic while others went...