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...Enter the main door and it appears that you are in any slightly threadbare public school office - with linoleum floors and faded paint on the walls. Upstairs you find classrooms and more offices used to administer a 500-student tutoring program. Every evening and on Saturdays students from 4th grade to 6th grade drawn from underprivileged neighborhoods all over the city stream into the classrooms, where they are taught (by both Opus Dei and non Opus Dei teachers) math, reading and science. The tutoring program was started by Opus Dei and is run by a nonprofit foundation and separate board...
...letter as an attack on the same kind of thing. The popular press caught on almost as quickly, overworking the “College Admissions Game Getting Harder to Win” angle until phrases like “extracurricular activities” and “unweighted grade point average” became household terms...
...Recently, I was asked by one of my daughters if I believed in angels. Her second-grade Sunday school teacher had included in her lesson plan a description of seraphim and cherubim and touched on the topics of archangels and fallen angels, and this had left her in quite a muddle. Her question would leave many doctors, myself included, in a muddle as well. Doctors are trained in science, where the truth is defined by tangible proof, not blind faith. But science hasn't proven that angels exist or don't exist. And at least a few times...
...This song was extremely overplayed. Pretty good, but kind of depressing. This is from the angsty teenage years.” 3. “Pardon Me” by Incubus “Probably the first good rock song that I liked. It was back in seventh grade.” 4. “Wake Up” by Rage Against the Machine “Zack de la Rocha’s got a good scream. I think I started with this after I saw ‘The Matrix...
...rare lea ever wrongEye have run this poem threw it I’m shore your please to no It’s letter perfect all the weigh My chequer towed me sew-Anonymous Spelling is a lost art. With the invention of spell check, most of us graduated grade school perfectly content with the thought that “I before E except after C” was a thing of the past, locked away with good penmanship in the cabinet of archaic talents. But what about those of us who didn’t want to say goodbye...