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...study by Philip Sadler, director of science education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows that students who had taken high school physics classes that used textbooks did substantially worse in college physics than those whose high school classes used no textbooks at all. Baltimore's nonprofit Abell Foundation, searching for a top-flight math book for gifted students, couldn't find one in the U.S., and turned instead to an English-language book from Singapore...
...study by Philip Sadler, director of science education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows that students who had taken high school physics classes that used textbooks did substantially worse in college physics than those whose high school classes used no textbooks at all. Baltimore's nonprofit Abell Foundation, searching for a top-flight math book for gifted students, couldn't find one in the U.S., and turned instead to an English-language book from Singapore...
...that's just not good enough," says board chair David Acosta, a Houston C.P.A. Vice chairman Ken Ford, an engineer with the conservative Housing Trade Association in Washington, says the challenge is to honor the social-justice mission while Pacifica grows. "But we are a corporation. It's nonprofit, but we have to operate as a business...
Retired horse trainer Janet Burleson created the nonprofit Guide Horse Foundation after a visit to New York City in 1999, when she and her husband saddled up on rented horses a few blocks from Central Park. Impressed by the animals' calm in heavy traffic and their mastery of right turns on red, the couple went back to Kittrell, N.C., and taught their 24-in.-high mare Twinkie to lead a blind woman through a mall. Burleson plans to donate 10 other pygmy horses--now in training--to the visually impaired...
...plan counter that it's wrong to discriminate against groups that provide valuable social services simply because they have religious roots. And there is evidence from at least once source that faith-based groups are getting plenty of business - and attracting plenty of volunteer participation. Independent Sector, a nonprofit organization that supports the President's initiative, has issued a study underlining the social impact of America's 353,000 religious congregations. According to that report, nine in 10 congregations provide services beyond spiritual programs, including health, education and arts programs. It's precisely those programs, Bush emphasizes, already established...