Word: davidson
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What's needed is a new model for gifted education, an urgent sense that prodigious intellectual talents are a threatened resource. That's the idea behind the Davidson Academy of Nevada, in Reno, which was founded by a wealthy couple, Janice and Robert Davidson, but chartered by the state legislature as a public, tuition-free school. The academy will begin its second year Aug. 27, and while it will have just 45 students, they are 45 of the nation's smartest children. They are kids from age 11 to 16 who are taking classes at least three years beyond their...
...academy is being watched closely in education circles. The Davidsons are well-connected philanthropists who made their fortune in the education-software business--Jan and a friend conceived the hit Math Blaster program in the early 1980s. She and her husband sold Davidson & Associates for roughly $1.1 billion in 1996. They have given millions of dollars to universities and tens of thousands to Republican politicians like George W. Bush and Senator John Ensign of Nevada. Gifted kids often draw only flickering interest from government officials, but Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings attended the Davidson Academy's opening...
...Presley 30th Anniversary Silver Eagle 2007," yours for only $39.95;, and an Elvis edition of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups with "a specially formulated peanut butter and banana crème flavor." Presley-philes in a higher income bracket - Jay Leno's - will want one of the 30 Harley-Davidson bikes built as replicas of Elvis' 1957 Black FLH model (Retail price: $58,812; each comes with a painting and sculpture of the King). Tonight some lucky souls will attend the sold-out 30th Anniversary Concert at the FedExForum in Memphis, where giant-screen clips of the singing King will...
...actually enjoying everything more than I ever have. God hasn't promised us tomorrow, but he has promised us eternity.' TONY SNOW, White House press secretary, speaking to students at his alma mater, Davidson College. Snow returned to his post on April 30, five weeks after doctors discovered a recurrence of his cancer...
...August 15, 1996: San Diego, California Frederick Martin Davidson, 36, a graduate engineering student at San Diego State, is defending his thesis before a faculty committee when he pulls out a handgun and kills three professors. February 19, 1997: Bethel, Alaska A 16 year-old shoots and kills his principal and a student. Two other students are injured...