Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently, popular support for public schools rarely solidifies into real results. The age-old Parent-Teacher Association offers one line, but ignores the interests of most of the community. Schools need broader organizations linking the support and input of business leaders, civic activists, school alumni, and neighborhood residents. Here, as elsewhere, public educators can learn from private schools that have traditionally mastered the art of tapping every potential vein of support, financial and otherwise. The importance of this link for public schools intensifies as a growing proportion of an ever-graying population loses parental ties to the schools. Already...
Just as no one can adequately explain the source of a parent's strength or perseverance, so no one can presume to gauge a parent's grief or fear when a child lies near death. Somehow, though, such a situation proves even more disturbing when a mother must compose a flyer that begins, "Please help this little girl live!!" The emphasis provided by the photograph of Jorie on that flyer--her wide, radiant smile stretches towards bright, clear eyes--makes the exclamation points seem almost unnecessary...
...active members of Mobilization for Survival, the parent group sponsoring. Nuclear Free Cambridge, would not object to being described as leftist holdovers from the '60s. In fact many of the group's earliest activities were collate stilted with the Anti-War Organizing League World...
...Park is 56% black. This year 200 applied for the 30 places in Lincoln Park's International Baccalaureate program, an academically demanding two-year curriculum, and students who scored in the 97th percentile on the entrance exam were turned away. Says Stephen Ballis, an insurance executive and neighborhood parent: "This used to be a half-filled building, isolated from the community. Now it's overcrowded. Excellence and expectations of excellence are contagious...
Activities in Cambridge will include a series of parent workshops on "Talking to Children about Sex," and book displays at public libraries...