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Bredekamp says she hears complaints from kindergarten teachers across the country that "our kids need more play, rather than less, and our curriculum is a mile wide and an inch deep. The pressure is on coverage and not teaching in depth." According to Harriet Egertson, head of the early-learning section of the Nebraska department of education, "When large portions of the day are spent with kids listening instead of doing, then kids who don't learn quite that way fail." More time spent sitting and listening to a teacher may not be appropriate for younger learners, who benefit from...
...Person of the Century issue is still a couple of months away, but we thought we'd get a head start on the next century by launching the first in our new five-part series, Visions 21. The idea of the series is to probe the next century by asking 100 provocative questions and then doing our best to answer them. This week we explore the first 20 questions, about our health and the health of our planet...
...style issue, in fact, has reared its head at a midweek practice on a raggedy field in the heart of Compton, a mostly black and Hispanic town south of Los Angeles. Two members of the Homies & Popz team--which includes a few ex-gangsters and a couple of homeless guys--have shown up in baggy jeans hung low around the hips. "Gentlemen, we practice in whites!" player-coach Ted Hayes laments. "We practice in whites...
...Force has been grumbling about a lack of funds. So why hasn't it been keeping a closer eye on its petty cash? Embarrassing case in point: an audit of the publicly funded renovations to the Air Force Academy's Carlton House, home of the academy's head, LIEUT. GENERAL TAD OELSTROM...
...blush and change the subject. You are born with three things: intelligence, endurance and the opportunity to build integrity. You decide how much intelligence and endurance you are going to use. You build integrity every single day with the choices you make. I would scratch my head if someone asked me to give them a choice John made that was bad, that produced inferior integrity. And I find myself wondering what life will be like without John Chafee...