Word: mawr
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Leslie Rescorla, a Bryn Mawr clinical child psychologist, notes that it is currently common practice for educators to recommend that socially or physically immature children with autumn birthdays enter kindergarten at six, ( rather than five. The practice makes sense, Rescorla says, if parents have special concerns about their child's social development: "If it's interacting, cooperating, playing with others you're worried about, then keeping children in nursery school for another year is good. It's nursery school, not kindergarten, where these important skills are now being learned...
...latest nine schools to acknowledge that they have been contacted by federal investigators are: Brown University, Dartmouth College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Wellesley College and Wheaton College in New England; the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Randolph-Macon Women's College in Virginia...
...Bryn Mawr and the University of Pennsylvania have also been included in the inquiry...
...While we do not believe the college's practices are in violation of the Sherman Act, we will comply fully with the Justice Department's request for information," said Bryn Mawr spokesperson Debra Thomas...
This week's story may be the hottest Nash has ever covered, but as a reporter specializing in science and technology, she has contributed to covers on subjects, ranging from supercomputers to supernovas, that have proved as challenging as the sun. A "lopsided liberal-arts graduate" of Bryn Mawr College who joined TIME in 1965, Nash credits her fascination with such topics to a firm belief that "nothing is so difficult that it can't be understood with a little effort." Her marriage to a physicist helps, allowing her "to absorb a feel for how scientists think and operate, virtually...