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...Research on Higher Education and is a principal researcher with the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement, says that by 2000 he will produce a kind of Consumer Reports on American colleges and universities that will rate schools by a new measure: how their graduates fare after they leave school. Fifteen schools have signed on to his pilot program, which has funding from the U.S. Department of Education...
Warehouse No. 2, donated by a sympathetic local business, is what happens when the home-school movement reaches critical mass. Fifteen years ago, there were perhaps 50 families home-schooling their kids in Wichita. Afraid that the practice violated Kansas law, they met in secret and kept their children inside during school hours. Most publishers refused to sell them teachers' guides, assuming they wanted the answer sheets to help their kids cheat. So they bought the textbooks Christian schools were throwing away. Home-schooled kids didn't have many academic or extracurricular outlets, which was all right, since almost...
...nuances of Harvard social life. Well, at least you have somewhere to go and are obviously not being mocked by Store 24 employees on a Saturday night (see last week's edition of Fifteen Minutes for more details). Your problem is a good one to have. As freshmen desperately cruise the Yard looking for something better to do than chat up the backpack checkers in Lamont or crowd into an impossibly small common room with 400 sweaty classmates, you can let the people come...
...Byrnes, a retired dancer and mother of Maja K. Byrnes '00, agrees. Fifteen years ago, she recognized the sudden improvement of a fellow ballet dancer. The dancer in question shared her secret and sent Byrnes to a Pilates class. She has been a devotee ever since. Not only does she value the look maintained by regular Pilates, but Byrnes emphasizes that it is good for a bad back and gentle enough for her to continue workouts with a broken ankle. As for Madonna's sudden interest, Byrnes muses, "I think she'll get tired...
...Buchanan family, from Westminster, Mass., makes an annual visit to Red Apple Farm. Fifteen-month-old Bridgette M. Buchanan tasted her first apple at the farm last year. This year, she graduated to a roasted ear of corn...