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...paid to learn. What’s better than that?” rising 10th-grader John Lewis asked Wednesday, as 30 high school sophomores converged on the Yard for the opening day of the Crimson Summer Academy, a new program for local low-income students...
Moore also displays a talent for catching poignant moments on film himself: the Marine recruiter handing his card to a ninth grader, the boy saying he wishes he was able to go to college without the fear of dying in the process, the military mom reading her son’s last letter, in which he criticizes the Bush administration. Sometimes Moore creates the moments, taking to the streets to get Congresspeople to enlist their children in the Army, exposing the hypocrisy of lawmakers who send other people’s children to die without wanting to sacrifice their...
...toughest problem of Kevin Hatamiya's brief elementary school career doesn't involve arithmetic. It's his hair-trigger emotions. Whenever life throws the 7-year-old second-grader a setback, his short fuse ignites, and he yells at the top of his voice. His mother Michele thought manners lessons might teach him to cope better, so she paid $50 for three one-hour classes. "I'd like him to control himself more," says Michele, "not just with his temper but in lots of other ways...
While at the University of Chicago, Glaeser worked as a teaching assistant to Becker, who recalled that Glaeser was the fastest grader he has ever seen...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...