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Project Follow Through began in 1967. Its aim was to continue in kindergarten and up through third grade the gains that underprivileged children had made in Lyndon Johnson's Head Start program-in education, medical care and parental involvement...
RUSSELL HOBAN'S most celebrated creation is a badger named Frances. Few American children make it through kindergarten without reading Bread and Jam for Frances, Bedtime for Frances, or Hoban's four other stories about literature's most appealing marsupial...
...Heat, Hurt may be said to have mastered the craft. But he won't say it. "I respect what people have told me," he says. "If I make it to 40, 1 might be a good actor. With these three films, I think I've finally passed kindergarten in film acting - with honors, even. Now I want to see what first grade is like." - By Richard Corliss
Arising from a thicket of local grass roots, Christian schools today are found in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes from kindergarten through grade twelve, at academic levels that range from fairly high to very low. Discrimination in favor of religion is a basic raison d'etre, and at the more zealous schools, a tub-thumping suspicion of all nonreligious learning fills the air. In a 150-page how-to-start-a-school guide for would-be organizers, Educator Robert Billings (now a top Reaganite administrator in the Department of Education) warns in capital letters: NO UNSAVED INDIVIDUALS...
...Christiansburg Christian School. Situated in a church basement in southwestern Virginia, Christiansburg Christian teaches all grades from kindergarten through twelve, although it has only seven faculty members (and just one of these has prior teaching experience). Total enrollment is 65 and the annual budget is a bare $110,000. The school's teaching is conducted with a package of self-study workbooks and tapes published by Accelerated Christian Education of Lewisville, Texas, a fast-growing company that markets start-a-school kits nationwide. The fee scale is complicated, but a basic initial A.C.E. charge is $950. Students work...