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Echoing the views of many Democrats, Brown says he will immediately push for full funding of programs such as Head Start, designed to give preschool children better preparation through a combination of school and health programs...
Clinton has made himself the training and education candidate. He would create a national apprenticeship program for high school students who are not college-bound and would require companies to invest the equivalent of 1.5% of their payroll to train all workers. He also wants preschool for every needy child, national examinations for elementary and secondary students, and guaranteed tuition for college students, who would repay it in cash or with national service. To help finance all this, Clinton would pare $100 billion from the defense budget over the next five years -- twice what the Bush Administration proposes...
...last week, citing "compelling evidence that girls are not receiving the same quality, or even quantity, of education as their brothers." That conclusion was contained in a report compiled by specialists at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women that synthesized hundreds of studies of girl students from preschool age through Grade...
...first study, involving 229 preschool children, researchers at the Medical College of Georgia determined that, by age six, children recognize Joe as readily as they do Mickey Mouse. Meanwhile, adults -- the stated target of the ads -- show a much lower recognition level. By high school, according to the second study, nearly half the students say they think Joe "is cool." The third study looked at 5,040 California teenagers, ages 12 to 17, and found that Camels' increasing popularity with the 131 smokers among them paralleled the buildup of the Joe Camel ad campaign. "The fact is that...
Experience: two-term committee veteran, administrator of the Agassiz Preschool in Porter Square...