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Concerns that homeschooling could lead to insularity - or worse, as Kraus puts it, "could help foster the development of a sect" - are shaping policy debates in European countries. In Britain, for example, Parliament is considering legislation that would create a new monitoring system to ensure that homeschooled kids get a suitable education. (See the 25 best back-to-school gadgets...
...components of the registry's efforts is providing support - both moral and material - for such caregivers, whom UNICEF recruits from the children's neighborhoods. The amount of food, clothing and education assistance provided to foster families is not a lot - agencies don't want to encourage people to step forward just for the aid - but it's enough to make caregivers feel as if they're getting adequate backup. (See the destruction in Haiti from...
Crowley says that there is a need to foster biotechnology not just at the state level, as seen in Massachusetts, but also on a national platform...
...this atmosphere of distrust, it is unclear whether the Kremlin will be able to foster an open culture of innovation, which Berlin at Stanford calls the main ingredient in Silicon Valley's success. Kolesnikov agrees. "What developed around Stanford was an entrepreneurial culture," he says. "I don't know how you create that. I guess it's up to the government to set up some kinds of conditions and leave people alone, stop freaking them out. Maybe something will come...
Erika M. Lovin '11, a social chair on the Pfoho HoCo, was responsible for the idea of a trivia challenge as an effort to foster community in the Quad...