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...building a couple of times a year, Kanofsky, of Skokie, Ill., is in her kids' schools as many as three times a week. The mother of a sixth-grader, an 11th-grader and a college student, she has crusaded for typing instruction, against the high noise level at pep rallies and for more-demanding instruction at the junior high. "When a principal says, 'It's my school,' I tell him, 'It's our school. You have to do what the community wants,'" says Kanofsky, who limits her work as a pharmacist to every other weekend so that she has time...
...have long been the unmentioned multitude in the WNBA, a sport that prefers to target itself to families. But the L.A. Sparks are finally turning the light on that part of their fan base. The change began May 4, when Girl Bar, a lesbian dance club, held a preseason pep rally. Members lined up to meet players (but not star Lisa Leslie, who apparently had a prior engagement) and buy season tickets. The partnership will continue June 5, after the Sparks' first home game, when players will attend a cocktail party with Girl Bar members; the Sparks' June 14 game...
...recent ad in the New York Times, in lettering that resembled a childish scrawl, challenged readers to "sign up for the most important job in New York City." Fogel was among the job switchers who answered similar ads last year. In August he and 349 other recruits attended a pep-rally orientation for New York Fellows, an accelerated-certification program started by schools chancellor Harold Levy. "Urban education," Levy told the group, "has the same moral force as the civil rights movement." After four weeks of all-day classes on teaching methods and lesson plans, the 323 who stuck with...
...recent ad in the New York Times, in lettering that resembled a childish scrawl, challenged readers to "sign up for the most important job in New York City." Fogel was among the job switchers who answered similar ads last year. In August he and 349 other recruits attended a pep-rally orientation for New York Fellows, an accelerated-certification program started by schools chancellor Harold Levy. "Urban education," Levy told the group, "has the same moral force as the civil rights movement." After four weeks of all-day classes on teaching methods and lesson plans, the 323 who stuck with...
...doing so quickly. Say prices have shot up 3%. The best Fed policy, his study showed, was to respond by jacking interest rates. Higher rates mean it's more expensive to borrow, and that slows the economy down, tamping inflation. The idea works in reverse too: cutting rates helps pep up laagging growth. Under Taylor rules, anyone, even Bernie, could make monetary policy. In our globalized economy, the thinking went, everyone from China to Chile could have a Greenspan. All they needed was access to the right ratio and a laptop computer to crunch the numbers. A Greenspan...