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...spawning a swarm of new complaints--and not just from grade-wary parents. Some educators argue that the program is pointless paper pushing. Worse, they insist, grades will turn off the very parents schools need to engage. "Should a single parent who works two jobs and doesn't have much time for school activities get her knuckles rapped?" asks Gary Natriello, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College who has studied report cards of all kinds. "It will only make her more likely to hide at home...
...more measured approach is used at Baltimore's Dr. Bernard Harris Sr. Elementary School, which mailed out self-scoring parent reports last fall. After parents rate themselves in areas like provides "pencil and school supplies" or "attended back-to- school night," children bring back the transcript. So far, says principal Lucretia Coates, the rate of return has been "overwhelming." One reason: children who hand in their parents' grades get entered in a raffle to win jewelry, yo-yos or Pokemon cards...
Just seeing their parents scrutinized is incentive enough for some students to improve. Shanece Bates, 10, says of her mom, "I'm glad she got some bad grades too and really knew how I was doing. Now we're back on track." And if mom can just bring up that homework grade, she has a shot at making the parent honor roll...
...shot by a lone gunman. For many of us, it was an emotional rite of passage. We clutched a grownup's hand in the darkened theater. But imagine watching Bambi or Beauty and the Beast on video, not as a seven-year-old but at four, and without a parent present to explain the law of the cartoon jungle. Kids ages two to five spend an average of 1 1/2 hours watching videos each day, yet children up to age five need adult help to process what they are seeing. Children use stories to explore the feelings they...
Back in the States, the ratings irony was delicious. CBS, which attracts relatively few 18-to-49s, has long decried advertisers' focus on demographics rather than overall viewers. Unfair! Ageist! Fifty-year-olds buy stuff too! Then CBS merged with MTV's parent, Viacom, and started courting youth (MTV heavily plugged Survivor). Against Survivor, Millionaire drew more viewers. But CBS, which won the 18-to-34 and 18-to-49 viewers dramatically (by 1.5 and 1.4 million, respectively), claimed victory...