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...they are allocated--including whose elbows are sharpest. Many schools, fearful of "bright flight," the mass departure of high-achieving kids, feel they have no choice but to appease the most outspoken parents. "I understand, having been a parent, the attitude that 'I don't have time to fix the whole system; I don't have time and energy to get rid of systemic injustice, racism, poverty and violence; I have to get what's right for my kid,'" says Syracuse's Sapon-Shevin. "But then the schools do educational triage. They basically attend to the most vocal, powerful people...
...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 don't know how to fix the kid, to get the kid going. They want us to do it, and discover we can't either." Sometimes bright kids intentionally work just hard enough to get a B because they are trying to make a point about what should be demanded of them, observes Jennifer Loh, a math teacher...
...songwriter are a little too pop for the self-consciously offbeat genre/catchphrase every critic seemed to swoon over this past year. Just when Grizzly Bear’s aural molasses threatens to overwhelm, an endearingly lively instrumental break or jaunty Britpop bassline interrupts their hibernation dreams. “Fix It,” in particular, flirts with major keys at a non-somnolent pace, suggesting what these guys could do with a real studio budget...
...seems that activists will use any means available to undermine corporate America. “I’m Not Stealing” was created by two young activists who attempted to fix the effects of commercial materialism on their own, thus incurring the wrath of the monolithic Wal-mart Corporation. Recode.com featured a barcode generator that allowed clients to re-price commercial goods as they saw fit. After the website’s creators were forced to dismantle their project because of legal action, the response film played on the website. The cartoon’s host, a talking...
...approached the baggage claim I frantically tried to fix my cowlick because I could see the cameras rolling in the distance. Peter Rader, a Harvard alumnus and successful screenplay writer, was waiting for us with cameras in tow. The footage was for an upcoming documentary Rader is making concerning the relationship between Harvard and Hollywood, an apt scenario for our immersion into...