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...compared with those of the Bushes or the Kennedys or the Roosevelts or the Adamses or any of the other American princes who were born into power or bred to it, represents such a radical departure from the norm that it finally brings meaning to the promise taught from kindergarten: "Anyone can grow up to be President." (See 10 elections that changed America...
...range of all students. Those who excel in math are not necessarily those with the greatest raw intelligence, but those with a strong background who have been encouraged to practice their skills. Rather than abandon children to calculator computations in their early years, our curricular standards for math, from kindergarten to high school, should perhaps be modeled after the more rigorous math lessons in Asian and Eastern European countries. American cultural attitudes toward math have paralyzed our education prospects: Times tables are relegated to the past, students languish in an academic environment sorely lacking in math standards, and the ubiquitous...
...Knowing him was like drinking it." Temperament is a special subcommittee of character: it is less intellect than instinct, more about music than lyrics - the quality voters sense when they watch a candidate improvise or when he thinks no one is looking. It's why newspapers run profiles quoting kindergarten teachers; temperament is formed early. "You can call it balance. You can call it a sense of proportion. You can call it maturity, good judgment," says historian David McCullough. "One of the clearest lessons of history is that there's no such thing as the foreseeable future, and particularly...
Those periodic interviews, Boivin said, allowed researchers to identify three "trajectories" of victimization risk that children tended to follow as they moved from preschool into kindergarten. Most kids (71%) fell into the low-trajectory camp; about a quarter fell into the moderate category. But "there was 4% - mostly boys - who are chronically, highly victimized," Boivin says...
...book, The Audacity of Hope, “those in public life have become so scripted, and the gestures that candidates use to signify their values have become so standardized (a stop at a black church, the hunting trip, the visit to a NASCAR track, the reading in the kindergarten classroom)3.” Obama has, he suggests, never felt the need to prove he’s your typical all-American Joe: he’s proud of the fact that he is comfortable asking for Dijon mustard while campaign advisors suggest he take the regular yellow kind...