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...diagnoses. Beginning last year, Texas' Austin Independent School District began requiring principals to track discipline data by race to discern if any specific teachers were using a heavier hand with black students. The answer was yes, but the reasons were far from straightforward. Cornel Jones, principal of Austin's Oak Springs Elementary School, does not blame racism but chalks the problem up to "cultural misunderstandings" between his white teachers and the 97%-minority student body. One insidious source of confusion: When a teacher scolds a black or Latino student for a simple matter like talking out of turn, Jones says...
...call parents, you want them to "extract the cruelty" from their bullying children, says Laura Kavesh, a child psychologist in Evanston, Ill. "But many parents are blown away by the idea of their child being cruel. They won't believe it." In a recent police-department survey in Oak Harbor, Wash., 89% of local high school students said they had engaged in bullying behavior. Yet only 18% of parents thought their children would act as bullies...
...stuck on Yes, Dear. But if their childless, swinging friends see them as old before their time, older moms--especially in communities where putting children on hold for career is common--can look down on younger women as babies with babies. Single mom Kim Howell, 25, of Oak Park, Ill., finds she can't go clubbing as often now that she has a three-year-old; her friends "can't understand that I can't stay out till 4 A.M. every Monday." Yet Howell, a restaurant server-manager, also has little in common with the older, upper-middle-class moms...
...Cuervo Original 1800 Coleccion tequila or savor, as Michael Javaherian did the other night, two small pitchers of margaritas at $115 each. "I'll look at the bill later," he said, as his two colleagues, geologists at an engineering company, raved about the "buttery taste" and "subtlety" of the oak barrel-aged liquor, enlivened only with fresh lime juice and a dash of Triple Sec. "It goes down easy," explained Jacob Henry, who recently got a $300 bottle of Herradura Seleccion Suprema for his 24th birthday...
...into Tequila 101. An explanation of the differences among silver (unaged), reposado (aged at least two months) and anejo (aged at least a year) is only the start. Join the club for $10, sample 35 pure-agave brands (no more than three per visit), and you will get an oak-framed "tequila master's" diploma and a T shirt. But to attain a "Ph.D." in tequila studies, you must taste another 35 brands and pass a 70-question written test...