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...Mahar, for one, is disappointed, largely because he's seen the benefits of a preschool program firsthand while serving as principal at a private Catholic school in the 1980s. When standardized test results came in for the school's two kindergarten classes in Mahar's first year on the job, he was surprised to see that one class performed markedly better than the other, despite the two sections having equally good teachers. "I asked the one teacher why her kids were doing so well, and she told me that it was because she got all the students who went through...
...tenure four years later, Mahar had quadrupled the size of the school's pre-K program, and made sure that there were equal numbers of its graduates in the kindergarten classes. Now he's hoping to bring the same benefit to public school children in his district, where about one-quarter of pupils are poor enough to qualify for a free- or reduced-price lunch. "I'm telling the parents who signed up it will hopefully go forward in the future," Mahar says. "But unfortunately it's not going to help your children, not this year...
...rather than high-powered careers in medicine or finance - because it?s assumed that women are better at those jobs than men. And perhaps we are. So let?s take steps to eliminating the economic burden of taking on those critical jobs: We need to make sure nurses and kindergarten teachers and social workers are paid on par with so-called "male" jobs like construction and plumbing. Is your child?s well-being or your parents? health care inherently worth less than having an efficient drain? I didn?t think...
...started burning my own CDs lately, and not since kindergarten have I made so many coasters. "Making coasters," in case you haven't heard, is the technical term for what happens when a mistake occurs in the audio CD (or CD-R) creation process. You can't re-record a CD-R, so you might as well rest your coffee mug on it. I bought a CD-R drive for my PC only a month ago, and my coffee table has never been so well protected...
...started burning my own CDs lately, and not since kindergarten have I made so many coasters. "Making coasters," in case you haven't heard, is the technical term for what happens when a mistake occurs in the audio CD (or CD-R) creation process. You can't re-record a CD-R, so you might as well rest your coffee mug on it. I bought a CD-R drive for my PC only a month ago, and my coffee table has never been so well protected...