Word: presented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Applicants should present their "whole selves," she says...
...every parent has the flexibility to leave work at 4 and finish up late at night. Still, making the effort to be present for a child's victories and milestones is vitally important, says Robert Weintraub, headmaster at Brookline High, where Sarah is a student: "Parents must attend every event their child participates in--back-to-school night, plays, shows, games. The kids will say you don't need to come, but you do. It reinforces the importance of school." Just as important, he says, is keeping the day-to-day dialogue going, no matter how reluctant a child might...
...Gardner is first to decide on the facts and procedures a teacher wants a student to understand, and then to figure out how best to present this information, given the student's strengths and weaknesses. Jean McKibben, a fifth-grade teacher at Coyote Creek, provided an example of such an approach when she described a project her students did about the European settlement of the Americas. Among other things, she wanted them to learn about the boats that were used...
...President know, and when did he know it?"--and the question at the heart of Monicagate was posed by South Carolina Congressman Lindsey Graham, who last week wondered, "Is this Watergate or Peyton Place?" Let's look at some characteristics of Monicagate and see whether they are present in these other dramas...
There are no concrete answers to these questions, and Slam does not seek any. Rather, it strives to present these issues in a way that is accurate and unapologetic. It's not fair that Ray was born into a form of modern day slavery. It's not fair that children on the street look up to him as a successful drug dealer. It's not fair that he is incarcerated along with a major percentage of the young black men in Washington, D.C. The point that this film tries to drive home is that solutions to these problems require action...