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...plays in more than 12,000 schools, while more than 58,000 schools participated in Pizza Hut's BOOK IT! National Reading Incentive Program this year. Financially strapped and desperate to spice up their curriculums, teachers may find irresistible the slick materials from the likes of Tootsie Roll and Disney jamming their mailboxes. "It's a lesson plan in a can," says Robert Paulis, a high school teacher in Parachute, Colorado, who showed the Exxon video along with one made by marine biologists. "Everyone needs one of those sometimes, but you have to be discreet about what you are showing...
...year children ages four to 12 spent about $17 billion on food, clothes and toys, while their parents spent hundreds of billions more on their behalf. Where some see students, others see captive consumers. Brian Bice, president of Jordan Education Media in Portland, Oregon, which has developed programs for Disney and Hi-C, says it is naive to think businesses will just write checks to help out schools. "The private sector will be more eager to support education in the form of teaching materials, provided they're allowed to take a bow," he says...
...huge disconnect between this professed love of the simple, unspoiled life and the way we actually live. As a people, we've spent the better part of the 20th century deserting the farms and the small towns for the cities and the suburbs; we are torn between vacationing in Disney World and Las Vegas...
...like the colored lights," said graduate student Joseph R. Metz. "It's like [Disney World's] EPCOT Center...
Despite his departure, it appears likely Berry's legacy will continue to guide HDS into the next century. He has crafted a mission statement with his team that the University foodservice leaders will continue to follow after their leader dons the Disney mouse ears...