Word: kindergartener
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...answers in longhand, then laboriously types them. She works in her bedroom on the second floor of her family's row house, shooing away three younger siblings as deadlines approach and the pressure mounts. Her quick success has made Angel consider giving up her ambition to be a kindergarten teacher in favor of a full-time future career in journalism...
...James and Clara Leonard of Sacramento, Calif., the crushing news was years in coming. Their son, Jimmy, now 15, seemed normal at birth, but then developed slowly. When he entered kindergarten, teachers urged the Leonards to take Jimmy and his younger brother, who was showing the same signs of mental dullness, to a hospital for evaluation. Doctors who examined the boys could find no sure cause for their condition. They had no doubts, however, about the diagnosis: both are "moderately" retarded and in need of long-term special training...
Soloveitchik tirelessly commutes between New York and Boston, where he supervises the enlightened Yeshiva he founded there, the Maimonides School. It is designed to give students from kindergarten through twelfth grade the best in both secular education and Jewish
...from its divine status a generation ago, and now it cultivates a more mundane image. So there was no effort to disguise the triumphant glee with which seven-year-old Prince Aya, second son of Crown Prince Akihito, gripped his newest honor: a diploma from Tokyo's Gakushuin kindergarten...
...stocky, forceful divorcee who looks a bit like a traditional schoolmarm, Mrs. Weber, 54, is emerging as one of the nation's most thoughtful advocates of making informal education intellectually demanding. By now she has trained some 100 teachers who are using informal techniques with about 2,700 kindergarten-through-fourth-graders in New York City public schools; she also has a Ford Foundation grant to train ten consultants to spread her methods. She has put her studies of similar British experiments into an expert new book, The English Infant School and Informal Education (Prentice-Hall...