Word: heard
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...South Philadelphia. It was bad enough that Vare is known for dismal test-score performance. What was worse was how the culture of the streets had seeped inside. La-Kia had been there only a few days when four girls tried to pick a fight with her. When he heard that, says Lester, "I nearly had 10 bypasses...
...Thomas Aquinas, a parochial school costing $1,400 a year. Because La-Kia's mother Yolanda is unemployed, Lester paid the tuition himself. But he's a retired children's clinic administrator, so money is scarce. Help came at a community meeting a few months later. Lester heard Robert Sorrell, head of the local chapter of the Urban League, talk about the new school-voucher program that Sorrell had started with money from the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association. The businesses were providing up to $1,000 in private-school-tuition assistance for about 90 students. With persistence, Lester...
Phonics? Whole language? If you have children in elementary school, you have probably heard about these dueling methods of teaching reading. And the possibility that your child's school uses the wrong one may make you as emotional as Muskie and Avery. Perhaps your school district, like so many others, is undergoing a bruising battle between the advocates of each approach. Most schools fall into neither camp completely, but their methods and textbooks are pushed in one direction or another. The conflict has even become a top political issue in several states; California and Texas are enacting laws mandating phonics...
...SEEN & HEARD...
...heard of the Hollywood Ten, the Little Rock Nine and the Chicago Seven. By fate or design or bad luck, they came to embody their tumultuous times, as we social commentators like to say: the McCarthy era, the end of enforced racial segregation, the street riots of the 1960s. But have you heard of the NEA Four? A generation from now, historians may see that hapless quartet as embodying the less than tumultuous times of the 1990s. For this is the era of tiny commotions...