Word: kindergartens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lovie Smith is a football coach. Yes, the name is Lovie, and while that's not exactly a testosterone-fueled calling card, Smith isn't cut from the foul-mouthed jock mold anyway. The head coach of the Chicago Bears cusses like, well, a kindergarten teacher. What does he say when he gets upset? "Jiminy!" And when he's really angry? "Jiminy Christmas," says MaryAnne, his wife of 26 years. "That's like us throwing F-bombs." Or there's the glare, a sign to the players that they've disappointed their coach...
...third grade, using “multidimensional interventions.” “You have to start early,” said Richard Weissbourd, a Graduate School of Education lecturer. “There’s already a significant achievement gap by the time that kids enter kindergarten so we’re trying to prevent the achievement gap.” The announcement of the collaboration came two days after Cambridge Public School Committee member Richard Harding complained about the lack of financial support from Harvard and MIT for Cambridge’s own achievement gap woes...
...disease states a re invisible to the onlooker. An infant born with a liver disease or heart disease may require extensive surgery, a premature baby may spend months in a neonatal intensive care unit and have lifelong medical and developmental disabilities, but they don't stand out in the kindergarten class photograph...
...chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost 658 employees in the terrorist attacks, had to manage his grief for his lost coworkers, including his brother, Gary, but at the same time rebuild his company. Lutnick was taking his son to school for his first day of kindergarten when the planes hit the World Trade Center, where Cantor Fitzgerald occupied floors 101 and 103-105 of the North Tower. Since that day, he says he's made it his mission to help the victims' families. "I have personally grown very close to and very connected with 658 families who have...
...what we've accomplished," he says. "Would I change a darn thing? I would not. We are here, and I don't think we can pick and choose how it worked out." He says his life is now filled with "tremendous joy," thanks to his family. His daughter starts kindergarten this year - on Sept. 11. "That's where I'll be with my wife," Lutnick says, "on my daughter's first day of big-girl school...