Word: preschooling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pulp Fiction is Tarantino's show-and-tell extravaganza. It towers over the year's other movies as majestically and menacingly as a gang lord at a preschool. It dares Hollywood films to be this smart about going this far. If good directors accept Tarantino's implicit challenge, the movie theater could again be a great place to live...
...flashy animation to capture the often short attention spans of children. But unlike violence-prone games, the payoff of kidware comes in the form of knowledge and invention rather than the emotional rush of destroying a foe. The programs are tailored for young minds at several stages from preschool to teen. Easy whimsy is the spirit of software like Broderbund's Kid Pix for young children, a paint program with a collection of leaky pens, dripping brushes and splattering paints you never have to clean up. Children ages 10 and older can create their own newspaper with programs such...
...programs have shown, the low-wage jobs available to welfare recipients are hardly a cure for poverty. The net result of forcing welfare mothers to work will be a further decline in wages for everyone -- as desperate women flood the work force -- plus a surge of commuting among the preschool...
Surrounded by dozens of children at a buoyant White House ceremony, President Clinton signed into law an expansion of Head Start that would permit the popular preschool program to reach out to children under three and provide full-day, year-round classes. Where the President's proposed $700 million increase to fund the more ambitious Head Start will come from is unclear...
...western hemisphere, who bear the brunt of the embargo. Food prices have doubled, putting staples like rice, beans and oil beyond the reach of many. Relief officials at CARE describe the current situation as the worst since the 1950s, with moderate and severe malnutrition plaguing some 20% of preschool children. Doctors report a rise in tuberculosis cases and an epidemic of anthrax. "The embargo must be lifted," says Christiana Dormestoin, who scrounges food for her four children. "We're poor people. We only want to feed our children. We don't care about politics...