Word: preschoolers
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...crowd of Gray Panthers, a senior-citizens organization, is gearing up to lobby at Florida's next legislative session. Some are knitting, but they're all as ready as ever to "kick butt and take names," as one says. Yet the issues they're tackling this morning--universal preschool and youth-delinquency prevention--are hardly AARP mainstays. A woman lays down her knitting needles when a guest speaker from the Early Childhood Initiative Foundation laments that last year more than 500 kids under age 12 were arrested in Miami-Dade County. "Kids and elderly--we're both vulnerable," says Harvey...
After braving entrance exams and interviews, only a select number of New York toddlers proved themselves worthy of acceptance to the elite institutions. At the cost of an economy-sized car, families can provide their erudite youngsters with a year of the finest quality preschool education. Many Manhattan parents see this instruction as a fast track to the Ivy League for their brilliant young minds...
...live in. But, my fellow Harvard students, I’m not so certain that we aren’t part of the problem. In a time when parents hire $4,000 consultants from companies called IvyWise to get their toddlers into a “prestigious” preschool, ask questions about the Ivy League matriculation rate of respective preschools’ graduates, have their children submit 12 to 14 applications, and have their hearts broken when the rejection letters come, we must ask ourselves whether we are perpetuating this perverted meritocracy...
...deny that same opportunity to inner-city youths by dogmatically opposing vouchers. That opposition is at odds with the legacy of the GI Bill and other Democratic efforts to achieve equality in educational opportunities. At the same time, we need to bring America’s investment in preschool and health care for all children into line with those of Canada and Europe. The Democratic Leadership Council’s fears of being labeled liberal Francophiles by the GOP are no excuse for inaction...
...believe somebody is so interested--particularly in all the pictures of me at the grocery store or at preschool ... It's like, 'Is this really interesting? And to whom?'" REESE WITHERSPOON, in an interview, questioning the appeal of tabloid magazines...