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When Jonathan Schnur was in grade school, he never lobbed spitballs or did the things that land kids in the principal's office. In fact, as a third-grader in suburban Milwaukee, Wis., he was mentoring kindergartners. Today Schnur, 38, remains dedicated to education. In 2000, Schnur and four colleagues founded New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), now the largest organization in the U.S. for recruiting and training urban principals. The group seeks candidates from all walks of life, from executives to military officers. "The most important thing we look for," says Schnur, "is an unyielding belief that any child...
After installing HIP, student test scores at Walt Whitman rose 20%. Karrol-Lee Richards, a seventh-grader, says HIP helped improved her grades from C's to A's. "I log in about four times a day to get advice from the teacher," says Richards. Keys plans to further HIP's reach by allowing students to interact with one another as well. "I just wanted a phone person and a computer person to be able to talk," says Keys. So far, HIP has been a conversation starter. --By Peter Bailey
...daughter of a sex educator and a politician, Menendez keenly feels both the interplay and the conflict between the worlds of politics and sex. As a third grader, she once presented on Gloria Steinem, telling the class about Steinem’s abortion. In middle school, she wrote a paper on the female aversion to masturbation. “I’ve been 30 since I was about six years old,” she shrugs...
...History. That's on top of the three AP courses he took as a junior and one as a sophomore. Capulong's fellow senior Nayla Scaramello, 17, carries a similar load, and she got an even earlier start on her nine AP courses. As a ninth-grader, she took AP U.S. History, with its daunting college-level reading list. "College is so competitive," she explains, "and you want to stand out. I want my transcript to reflect that I'm a hard worker...
...perfect tool. As a 10th-grader, Todd Rosenbaum, now a junior at the University of Virginia, took a biology course that met just twice a week and offered no labs, but he crammed so successfully for the AP exam that he earned a 5 (tops on AP's 5-point scale). That score allowed the high school valedictorian to skip introductory biology at the university, but he found himself woefully unprepared for an upper-level course. "Pretty much as soon as I got in, I realized that there was no way I'd survive," says Rosenbaum. He withdrew from...