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...even finished the game. "I just thought I'd have a headache for a day or two," Anson, now 17, says. Instead, she started showing symptoms of a concussion: lack of concentration, bad balance, delayed reactions. Soon the onetime honor student could read at only a third-grade level. After a year of intensive neurological therapy, she finally recovered...
...village in southern Kosovo before taking a train to the Macedonian border, and then an all-night bus to Senokos. When he brought me to his family's tent, his mother showed me one of the few keepsakes she'd managed to grab before fleeing: Dani's seventh-grade class photo. Her son, she told me proudly, was a star student...
...ninety-six students are chosen for consideration based on grade-point average, but then each of the students has to submit two letters of recommendation to one of three selection committees, divided into the disciplines of the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Natural Sciences...
...deadlock over how to prioritize the broadly defined benefits outlined this spring, the Allston Brighton North Neighbors Forum yesterday presented the task force with a three-page document outlining community benefits that Harvard should provide in conjunction with building the science complex. The list includes a kindergarten through eighth grade school and the reconstruction of a local community health center. The neighbors forum was created earlier this month with the goal of giving the community a powerful and united voice in negotiations with the city and with Harvard. But Ray Mellone, who chairs the task force composed of mayor-appointed...
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...