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...March 6, the Cambridge School Committee voted to temporarily increase the flexibility of the system it uses to assign students to kindergarten to accommodate the increasing numbers of affluent families applying for spots in the schools...
...Committee members said they thought the need to modify Cambridge’s Controlled Choice Plan, designed to consider socioeconomic background when assigning students to kindergarten, reflected a renewed—and encouraging—commitment to public schools on the part of the city’s families...
...Pizza Hut-sponsored program that rewards reading with free slices of pizza for students in kindergarten through sixth grade has recently been the target of criticism from a Harvard Medical School (HMS) instructor. Susan E. Linn, the associate director of the Media Center at the Judge Baker Children’s Center and an instructor in Psychiatry at HMS, criticized the fast-food giant last week, charging that its reading program amounted to corporate sponsorship and encouraged unhealthy eating habits. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood–an organization that Linn co-founded—has begun...
...Ruth was a visiting professor in spring 2003 while Rinere was serving as one of the school’s deans. Dr. Ruth, whose full name is Ruth K. Westheimer, was born in Germany, but escaped to Switzerland at age 10, Rinere said. Dr. Ruth also once taught kindergarten in France and served as a sniper in Haganah, a Jewish paramilitary group. “She’s not just the most famous sex therapist in the United States,” Rinere said. Dr. Ruth isn’t having a one-night stand with Harvard...
...cardboard boxes, and the tell-tale anxiety of freshman move-in day. Amidst the madness, Stephen T. Norberg ’06 rummages through his belongings and discovers a framed piece of thick paper decorated with a whimsical owl and a smartly dressed pig. It’s his kindergarten diploma. Carefully navigating the chaos, his left arm almost destroying a perfectly folded pile of undershirts, he crosses the room and secures the diploma onto the blank wall above his wooden desk. Pausing for several moments as his exhausted roommates look on in wonderment, he finally utters...