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...helps everyone modify the poses to their body types.”BENDING THE RULESPacelli discovered yoga in an unusual way. A native of New York City, Pacelli dropped out of both Brooklyn Polytechnic University and New York University, unsure of his career plans and originally interested in math or science. He spent five years as an actuarial trainee and worked as a guitar instructor before his “kudalini experience,” or life-changing experience, at age 26.He became inexplicably ill, losing 65 pounds and experienced constant diarrhea over the course of a year...
...burden shouldered by taxpayers from the top 40 percent of income earners. Since so much of what Bush said about his tax plans was just plain fabricated, I and a lot of liberals assumed that this statistic was just another example of “fuzzy math.” But it wasn?...
...reality. More than 50% of students entering college in the U.S. require remedial course work once on campus. Two years ago, the California State University system launched the Early Assessment Program (EAP), which encourages 11th-graders to take a test to gauge their college readiness in English and math. Some juniors who expect to coast to college find out they will have to work even harder their senior year to improve the skills they will need to thrive in a Cal State school. Other students who had not considered themselves college material discover that they are better equipped than they...
Andrew Halstead, 19, got the signal loud and clear when he didn't pass the math portion of the EAP test two years ago. "I was ready, essentially, to take senior year off," says Halstead, now finishing his freshman year at California State University, Fresno. "Then I learned that I was worse off in math than I thought." So although he didn't need the additional credits to graduate, Halstead took extra math and science classes that he thought would help better prepare him for college-level work. "When my friends were going out senior year, I was studying...
...American education,” famously said that “a human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” This is why the core of a secondary education is comprised of a set of highly specified academically rigorous courses in math, science, history, and English. Any system of majors that encroaches on this educational core would undermine this critical foundation, increasing intellectual stagnation and paralyzing both academic and all-around growth...