Word: program
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...find myself writing this piece because of my recent forays into the world of education. Last summer I taught at the Summerbridge Miami program, one of a network of programs designed to offer guidance and academic instruction to hundreds of at-risk students in America's cities. My approach to this enthusiastic group of middle school students was influenced by several motives. The most prominent of these impulses were my feelings of optimism and shameless idealism. With this attitude I prepared to take the teaching world (or Summerbridge Miami) by storm...
...found it somewhat dismaying to see that even the Summerbridge program--a program designed to teach America's students using a non-traditional method--was confined by standardized testing strictures. This fall I read an issue of Newsweek that spoke to my concerns. A flood of memories poured over me: I began to collect information from editorials, essays, novels, speeches, casual conversation and personal experience. Now, I feel compelled to contribute my viewpoints to the already volatile debate...
...biggest culprit in the decline in workers is the College's new financial aid program...
...head captains say the program has significantly cut into their worker...
Fitzsimmons notes that overall student earnings were virtually identical last year and the year before, although many students may have already lined up jobs when the program was announced...