Word: kindergartening
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...discovered during the first show, any knowledge that I had reaped anytime in my education since the required pre-kindergarten coordination exercises I had suffered through in 1984, served no purpose for the task at hand. Sure, my xeroxing was more than satisfactory, what with a summer of interning under my belt, but my fine motor skills were surprisingly rusty. During that first show, as I jerked the text back and forth through the camera, the rippling host became increasingly agitated, and gave me a firm scolding while the set crew and production team waited for Take 13. The speech...
...that has undercut white support for affirmative action. "I believe that you should not expect anyone to help you until you've done everything you can to help yourself," says Redwood. "While we continue to fight against discrimination, we need to do whatever it takes to improve education from kindergarten through high school so that black children are able to compete on an equal basis." To me, that seems like common sense...
Puzzling? I thought so until I learned about the remarkable institution called Odyssey of the Mind. OM, as it's known, gives kids from kindergarten through college a chance to practice teamwork while exercising the mental muscles responsible for creativity. Founded in 1978 by two New Jersey educators who felt that imaginative problem solving was getting short shrift in schools, OM has grown to include teams from all 50 states and 41 other countries; about half a million kids now participate worldwide, competing in regional, state and national contests that culminate in the World Finals each spring...
There is probably no way to stop high schools from breaking down into cliques. We may be hardwired for it. As early as preschool, researchers have found, kids begin rejecting other kids. And even in kindergarten, children have a good idea which of their classmates are popular and which are not. But schools can take the edge off the situation through inclusiveness. "I can't remember ever going to a pep rally and having the skaters show off their talents," says Curtis Cook, a parent at Phoenix's Desert Vista High School. Says New York City psychoanalyst Leon Hoffman...
...whole world," she decided to give her curriculum an environmental focus, emphasizing Adirondack ecology and history "smack in our backyard." Walk into the school now, and an eerie silence echoes off the polished corridor floors. Classrooms are empty because many of the kids are off in the woods. The kindergarten class is at the town's little nature center down the road. Groups of students go out with Americorps volunteers three days a week to track animals, learn compass- and map-reading skills and study water usage and pollution. High schoolers pursue research projects: a study of how highway salt...