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...would establish new incentives-lots more money and more control over teaching methods-to lure the nation's top college graduates into teaching, with bonuses for those willing to teach in the poorest neighborhoods. It would encourage a longer school day and longer school year and would fund universal preschool, and it would do all this, allegedly, for $67 billion less than we're spending on education today. In most of the country, local school boards-especially in affluent communities-would fight a state takeover of funding. Republicans are sticklers for local control. But what would be their argument against...
...American industry for years--it isn't just autos," Dingell acknowledged proudly. Besides, he added, neither he nor Detroit is to blame for the fact that overall mileage of the U.S. auto fleet hasn't improved. Americans simply prefer high-performance, four-wheel-drive towing machines, even for the preschool car pool. And in this free country, "if the people want something," he said, "they...
...Carter Partnership Award went to “School Readiness for All,” a Roxbury preschool education initiative spearheaded by national non-profit Jumpstart in collaboration with Northeastern University, Suffolk University, and Wheelock College...
...team will continue to monitor the children and will expand the scope of the research by evaluating the weight of the children who are now seven years old. “We’re planning to look at the children and see if this association continues beyond the preschool age,” Oken said. “We would like to find more findings in different groups of people...
...mails from educators, parents and former Book It participants, all supporting the program,” spokesman Christopher D. Fuller wrote in an e-mailed statement after refusing a telephone interview. Andrea L. Mills, a New York resident and parent, said she lobbied her son’s preschool to discontinue the Book It program. “Promoting reading is something I want to do, but I don’t think advertising for Pizza Hut is necessarily the best way to do it,” Mills said. “Reading is wonderful, and we shouldn?...