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Recent studies, including one released last week by the University of Michigan, show that kids in two-parent families spend more time with Mom and Dad than kids did 20 years ago. But much of that time is spent on activities like shopping or watching TV together. In a survey conducted last year for TIME and the Nickelodeon channel, 24% of kids felt their parents showed little or no interest in what they studied at school. Says Kim Joiner, a technology consultant at Conway Middle School in Louisville, Ky.: "It's very popular to say we have a problem...
...MAKE HOUSE CALLS. Jocelyn Graves, a single mom who lives in downtown Sacramento, Calif., felt that her son's school was run by suburban educators who didn't understand or care about her son. She began grumbling to friends and found that many were equally disaffected. At an informal school meeting, Graves acerbically suggested teachers could better understand students and parents by visiting their homes. Three years and 6,000 home visits later, the Sacramento schools' Home-Visit Project is credited with helping turn around the district's parents and its students. Reading scores on standardized exams have gone...
...Square as a theme park for nostalgic thirty-somethings—we’ll call it Yuppie FantasyLand—then all the changes that have happened in Harvard Square in the last few years start to make sense. We’ve lost many of the best mom-and-pop stores of the Square in the last few years, including Grafton Street, The Bow and Arrow, The Tasty, Videopros (soon to be gone), the movie theater on JFK Street, and Il Vicoletto. Though these losses have been sad for us actual students, extensive market research with Yuppie focus...
...contrast, Ford is so devoted to his wife Lisa and their four kids that he's been dubbed Ford's No. 1 "soccer mom." Last year he moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he is building a modest (by billionaire standards) house to give his family a more normal existence than the legacy-ridden conclave of mansions in Grosse Pointe. His current vehicle of choice (he has a garageful, including a couple of juiced-up Mustangs): a chrome yellow Ford Escape, the company's new compact...
...fate has it in for us. But even if fate were to relent, what would it matter? I’ve read about the championship teams of the early 1970s, the Knicks of Willis Reed, Walt Frazier and Dave DeBusschere. My mom has told me about how all of New York fell in love with them...