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Today, Cabot traces the roots of his life at Harvard all the way back to kindergarten. Growing up in Dover, Mass., where he continued to live for much of his life, he befriended Robert Leeson, Jr. ’55 and Ralph B. Williams ’55, two fellow students at the Charles River School. The three friends eventually went their separate ways—only to be reunited, to their surprise, as Harvard freshmen under the roof of Straus Hall...
...later, wondering why poor countries do not grow faster than rich countries and why devaluing currencies may not give a trade a boost. I walked into an introductory neuroscience class eager to learn how memory works only to be left wondering why I can remember the name of my kindergarten teacher but not what I had for lunch yesterday...
...schools - primary and secondary, public and private - is that tension between teachers and parents is rising. According to teachers, parents see a world that's getting faster, more complicated and less forgiving, and figure their children's best chance of making it out there is to shine, from kindergarten onward, in everything they do. These high expectations can fuse with the view that no setback is ever just bad luck: it's always somebody's fault - though never their own, nor their child's. While parents will accept human frailty in other areas of life, says New South Wales Primary...
...Clearly, early in the piece, disillusionment can strike. "Chloe," 22, started this year on a kindergarten class in a well-to-do part of Sydney. Blonde and attractive, she sensed straight away that some parents doubted she was up to the job. "We're just concerned," one told her, "that you don't understand (five-year-olds) because you don't have children yourself." Within days of taking on 22 kids - and still trying to memorize names - it seemed to her that some of the parents expected she'd already know the idiosyncrasies of the entire class. "One step outside...
...parents, dolling up and then rolling up in their SUV is a big part of their life," says a Melbourne Year 6 teacher. "School is where they show off." A primary school in Sydney's south has asked its cleaners to pay special attention to the windows of the kindergarten rooms - on the outside they're usually smeared with parents' hand (and nose) prints. In return for their help - and sometimes high fees - some parents want power. Ascham, an exclusive private girls' school in Sydney's east, endured a public row earlier in the year when a group...