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About a year ago, Smalls and her colleagues decided to go after one of those issues: the decline of simple play in kids' lives. School districts were cutting out recess and physical-education (PE) classes to save money; kids in high-crime areas were afraid to go outside; organized sports were becoming high-stress activities, with parents getting into fistfights over disputed referee calls. And too many children were glued to the couch, playing video games and watching television...
...tickets at the New York Film Festival last week was Ten, a deceptively simple movie about an Iranian woman and her car. Its two screenings sold out immediately, says festival director Richard Peña. But one key invitee wasn't able to make it - the celebrated director Abbas Kiarostami, who made Ten and was scheduled to lead a post-screening discussion about it. Because of post-9/11 security measures, he was stuck at home in Tehran. Asked about the matter, Kiarostami gives a modest shrug of resignation. "Perhaps you should write a piece on the role of terrorists...
...harsh calculus of public-school budgets, that means electives like PE or chorus could be the first to go. In inner-city schools, the cuts can be even less kind. For Deborah Holmes, the principal at Jefferson Junior High School, just a few blocks southwest of the U.S. Capitol, the choice was between buying more computers and doing something to raise her students' scores. In the end, Holmes opted for a $21,000 contract with The Princeton Review, reasoning that her students would become more computer literate by spending much of their time taking online practice exams...
...schooling Bill, 15, and Denise, 11, four years ago. He works hard at it and carefully tracks what his kids are learning. But he can't provide an art class at home even though Denise likes to sketch, and ice skating three days a week has to count for PE. The kids read great books, but they have no one outside the family with whom to discuss them during class. As Phillipps says, "There is no one to hide behind. What you do is yours...
...several years now educators have been puzzling over a nettlesome new math problem: with high-stakes exams requiring students to learn more, how should teachers go about cramming in the extra classwork? Popular answers have been to poach time from pursuits like art, PE and music or to excise field trips. According to a University of Virginia study published last year, some schools in that state even took to curtailing student bathroom trips to squeeze in extra study time...