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...week that was supposed to be focused on standardized testing and Friday night's prom, Kiel is still working to restore calm, with the help of 20 police officers and a team of school-district conflict-resolution workers, who interviewed 300 students to soothe nerves and try to determine the cause of the melee. The initial assessment: About half the students told investigators the incident was racially motivated, perhaps stemming from a territorial dispute between rival gangs of "taggers," whose grafitti has increasingly shown up on the campus in recent months. The rest blame it on something more benign: ennui...
...said that she was thrown into a new environment—one in which she didn’t even know how to tie her shoes. Kolbe told the crowd that the Web site will help answer questions like, “How do you wear the right prom dress so that it doesn’t get caught in your wheels when you dance?” Paul Martin described his feelings of hopelessness after being paralyzed in a car accident. While in rehab, he was inspired by a fellow quadriplegic, who was able to open and drink...
Meyer first realized something was afoot when she gave a reading in Seattle and somebody drove 4 hours and took a boat to get there. At twilightmoms.com a website for fans over 25, there are more than 200,000 posts. Last year there was an Eclipse prom in Tempe, Ariz. "It's not like Harry Potter, where you can wear a wizard's robe," Meyer says. "But they do what they can. One girl even had colored contacts...
High school minus the prom and plus a less awkward health class, single-sex education has long been a contentious hotspot of the academic world. Many proponents argue that adolescents benefit socially and academically from being able to develop without feeling pressure or judgment from the opposite sex; but others feel that single-sex education creates an unrealistic bubble that inhibits the development of social skills and reinforces gender stereotypes. Harvard, with many of its students hailing from the various single-sex high schools across the country, is the perfect place to test this debate. These students’ experiences...
...moved to a new school district in the fourth grade. Sporting a fresh mushroom haircut, I was completely clueless about cannolis in a town that was 40 percent Italian-American. Naturally, I was one tacky Jessica McClintock gown and plastic tiara away from being prom queen...