Word: preschooling
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...raking in a six-figure salary like his ecounterparts in nearby Silicon Alley, but his income was comfortable enough so that his wife Cindy Cordes, 31, could stay home with their daughter Ella, 4, and the couple could afford to send Ella to a $7,000-a-year private preschool, have regular dates at nice restaurants and take advantage of the booming market by investing in mutual funds. But by the time their son Asher was born in February 2001, the economy was running out of steam, most of Michael's clients were running away, and the family's investments...
...derive the most hope from the energy and hard work of young people. Roots & Shoots, J.G.I.'s program for youth from preschool through university, is now active in 70 countries. The name is symbolic: roots and shoots together can break up brick walls, just as citizens of Earth together can overcome our problems. The more than 4,000 groups of young people are cleaning creeks, restoring prairies and wetlands, planting trees, clearing trash, recycling--and making their voices heard...
...became the first national director of Project Head Start, a major federal program to ensure impoverished children a preschool education...
...clubbing as often now that she has a three-year-old; her friends "can't understand that I can't stay out till 4 A.M. every Monday." Yet Howell, a restaurant server-manager, also has little in common with the older, upper-middle-class moms at her daughter's preschool. "Some of them look at me funny because I'm young," Howell says, "but it doesn't bother me. I'm proud of my daughter." And, she adds, "when my daughter is 18, I'll be only...
...most children, a hug is all it takes to treat the bruise from a playground fall. But when Dalton Dawes collided with a classmate on his first day of preschool three years ago, the bleeding inside his shoulder would not stop. Dalton, an 8-year-old with fine blond hair and intelligent blue eyes who lives in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is a hemophiliac. What prevents the mishaps of childhood from killing him is $2,000-a-week injections of a medication called Mononine. But no private insurer will cover Dalton, so his parents, Leonard Poe and Heather...