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...small beer can set off a furor proves how ideologically hamstrung our schools debate has become. Still, if Bush's plan is largely symbolic, it's also sensible, offering coherent baby steps to lift the skills of America's neediest kids. Take his plan for Head Start, the popular preschool program that serves 850,000 disadvantaged children. While the 35-year-old program was meant to close the achievement gap between poor and middle-class toddlers, researchers agree it has brought no lasting gains. Most say that's because Head Start has become more of a day-care service stressing...
Many parents who helped their children master separation in day care are caught by surprise when it erupts again in preschool or kindergarten--or even later. "Separation is not an event. It's a process," says Mary Ucci, director of the Child Study Center at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. "It doesn't happen once. It happens continually over a lifetime." In fact, adults starting a new job are prey to the same prickles of panic that children experience on their first day of the school year...
...girls appear to be oblivious to the wrangling. Tommy Rogers says Becca is a backyard daredevil on her blue-and-orange Big Wheel cycle, a sparkling child with a taste for pepperoni pizza, who is "growing like a little weed." Callie, meanwhile, looks forward to starting preschool this fall. And Paula Johnson is already making the child a regular on the local beauty-pageant circuit. Callie was recently a contestant in a Richmond pageant, winning the titles Miss Photogenic and Miss Personality. Says Johnson: "Callie's doin' real good...
Julie Karp doesn't know how the little bloodsuckers got into her three-year-old daughter's hair. None of the other kids at Michelle's preschool had them. Maybe it was at the movie theater, or from the airplane seat on their trip to Indiana a couple of weeks earlier. Her husband was the first to notice the tiny dark specks, then the larger crawling ones. "I treated her with Nix, and I've been picking stuff out and vacuuming and cleaning ever since," Karp says. "Now I'm here...
There is probably no way to stop high schools from breaking down into cliques. We may be hardwired for it. As early as preschool, researchers have found, kids begin rejecting other kids. And even in kindergarten, children have a good idea which of their classmates are popular and which are not. But schools can take the edge off the situation through inclusiveness. "I can't remember ever going to a pep rally and having the skaters show off their talents," says Curtis Cook, a parent at Phoenix's Desert Vista High School. Says New York City psychoanalyst Leon Hoffman...