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Care varies from base to base. The previous commander at Fort Carson, Major General Mark Graham, became an advocate for improved mental-health care for soldiers after he lost two sons in military service - one in Iraq and the other to suicide. At Fort Carson, the base hospital is expanding its facilities for mental-health and family therapy, with regular counseling sessions for soldiers and their spouses. But it takes a while for a general's orders to trickle down to the ranks, where platoon leaders are supposed to steel their troops, physically and mentally, against the enemy. Says Colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How One Army Town Copes with Posttraumatic Stress | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Individual schools showed enormous variation. Amigos, Fletcher-Maynard, Haggerty, Morse, and Tobin School all reported that over 60 percent of their students come from low-income families. Baldwin, Graham and Parks, and King Open all had above 60 percent of students coming from high-income families...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Committee Reviews Diversity | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

This socioeconomic imbalance also manifested itself in uneven geographic distribution of students in six of schools mentioned above. Only Tobin and Graham and Parks saw many students enroll from non-neighboring areas...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Committee Reviews Diversity | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Schools with skewed socioeconomic distribution are also seeing high student-transfer rates. Schools in wealthier areas of Cambridge are experiencing stable or increasing enrollment, while schools in poorer neighborhoods experience high rates of attrition. For instance, Baldwin and Graham & Parks had twice as many students enrolling than leaving; Amigos, however, had four times as many students leaving than enrolling...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Committee Reviews Diversity | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...this unconventional selection of the author, the English Department is trying to expand the focus of the semi-annual lecture series beyond poetry, English Professor of Poetry Jorie Graham said...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poet, Novelist Delivers Speech | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

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