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Call it kindercramming. These days one of the fastest-growing markets for after-school tutors is preschoolers and kindergartners, whose parents are hoping that if their kids learn to read before first grade, it will ultimately help them get into college and get good jobs. Anxious moms and dads are no longer satisfied with traditional nursery school, which many see as a glorified romper room that focuses too much on learning through play. And of course, after years of Baby Einstein marketing, some parents have become convinced that the more math and reading skills their tots master, the better. Srinivas...
3rd/0:30: The Cornell band and crowd are coordinated to an amazing degree, with the fans carrying on even when the drop of the puck forces the band to stop playing. Harvard fans counter with a weak "hotel management" chant, which only leads to the Big Red faifthful yelling "grade inflation." Then there's "safety school," "we can't hear you," and so on. Ah, hockey fans...
...Nicolas Sarkozy, the new President of France - someone who, at times, has sounded more hawkish on Iran than Bush - and then German Chancellor Angela Merkel repeated that economic sanctions were a crucial part of diplomatic efforts to get Tehran to halt its development of facilities capable of producing weapons-grade uranium. But if ever there was a case where the devil is in the details, it's in the practical application of sanctions as a coercive instrument against Iran. The U.S. and the Europeans have so far been successful in getting two rounds of sanctions passed by the Security Council...
...Kami, who is a five-year-old AIDS orphan. In the United States, the next season will focus on environmental messages, he said. One of the main goals of Sesame Street is to promote basic learning at a time when most fourth-graders can’t read at grade level. A new initiative is a podcast called “Word on the Street,” which was created to help children build their vocabularies. Knell played an episode that has been viewed two million times on YouTube. In it, Chris Brown and Elmo dance...
...eighth grade and ninth grade I started going into Manhattan to go to record stores,” he says. “The DJing came as a result of being very interested in hip-hop culture and wanting to somehow find...