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...journalists hounded McCain's senior campaign aides, people like Steve Schmidt, Mark Salter and Rick Davis (no relation), Fred Davis worked in the shadows. He designed and often wrote the scripts for the most stinging of McCain's spots - the Web ad that depicted Obama as a messiah, the kindergarten ad that suggested Obama wanted to teach young kids about sex and the many others that questioned Obama's qualifications for the White House. (See the best Obama pictures from the campaign...
...time we look at the professional hockey leagues in Canada, a shockingly disproportionate number of the players on the roster were born in January, February and March. This effect also affects schooling. Those who are closer to eligibility cutoffs for school enrollment and are older when they begin kindergarten and pre-school are likely to be more mature and more intellectually advanced than those born farther away from the cutoff. This arbitrary cutoff date then has a real impact on the success of these students; at many colleges, Gladwell claims, students who are in the younger half of their...
Socioeconomic quotas for next year’s kindergarten classes will be based on current enrollment statistics—not the prior year’s statistics, as is normally the case—the Cambridge Public School Committee voted last night. The change will stay in effect indefinitely, until a more comprehensive decision on Cambridge’s long-standing “controlled choice” policy is reached in the spring. The district’s policy seeks to establish socioeconomic diversity at all Cambridge schools. In keeping with the program, the school district has required that...
...residents. The Peabody school qualifies for the program because more than 50 percent of its students qualify for free and reduced lunch, Healy said at the meeting. The city will submit a grant application detailing its plan to install photovoltaic solar panels at the school, which serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade, later this week. “With any luck...some kids could learn how they work and end up working with photovoltaic cells in the future,” said Jason Taylor, a Peabody School parent who spoke during the public comment segment of the meeting. City...
...event, it's too late for Johanna Staples, a kindergarten teacher whose husband Dennis, a popular disc jockey in Toledo, Ohio, died of a reaction to tainted heparin in January, a day shy of his 60th birthday. She says she's still afraid. "There are so many variables in how we receive our drugs that it's amazing there hasn't been a worse problem. Now look at all these kids sick in China because of tainted milk. Sometimes I get in a sheer panic thinking about...