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...million district budget to the new hybrid middle school would allow for the implementation of an Intensive Studies Program (ISP) at the Peabody School. ISP, along with the Achievement Via Independent Determination program, would aid the school in improving their level of achievement, Fowler-Finn said. Peabody School Principal Joellen Scannell said she was optimistic about the plan’s ability to increase enrollment. “We have plenty of classrooms, and we’d like to fill them with children,” she said. But others at the meeting noted the drawbacks...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Schools Debate Finances | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...many students like the fact that the teachers, while fit, look more womanly than the typical hard-body fitness instructor. "Many fuller-figured women are afraid to go to aerobics classes because they're getting laughed at," says Sohaila, a teacher in San Diego whose real name is JoEllen Handelsman. "Even if students were considerably overweight, it wouldn't impede them from doing the same moves I do." In fact, one of her students, Debbie Freeman, weighed 300 lbs. when she started belly dancing about eight years ago. After one year, Freeman had dropped 90 lbs. What she likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body & Mind: Belly-Dance Boom | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

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