Word: environmental
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Regardless of race, nationality, gender, or color, there exists within each of us the natural tendency to care, to offer assistance, to depend on others, to respect the dignity of others, to be kind, and to give of ourselves. And yet, as a society, we collectively emphasize the suppression of...
Why are many children of the urban poor so uncomfortable in school? One explanation comes from University of Chicago Professor Dolores Norton, who is conducting a unique study of the intellectual development of children in poor families. Her conclusion: growing up in an unstructured home environment, they do not develop...
Other child-development experts concur with Norton's findings. Many poor children, they note, are mystified by the "time-slotted" school environment, where crayons are often taken away before the picture is finished because it is juice time. Says clinical psychologist Jeree Pawl, director of the Infant- Parent Program at...
ENVIRONMENT: Boston girds for the great rat war
That attitude about campus security is the only thing that will prevent Harvard from providing a safer work environment for faculty, staff and students. The Science Center is a Harvard facility, and the University has a responsibility to ensure that working there is safe, particularly since it is the only...