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...biannual convention of the American Federation of Teachers, president Sandra Feldman called for the universal enrollment in pre-school of every child aged three or older - regardless of whether their parents are able to pay for the classes. The AFT plan would charge parents on a sliding scale, asking wealthier parents to spend a bit more in order to finance part of another, needier child?s tuition. Feldman puts the estimated tab of such a program at $41 billion, the bulk of which would continue to be bankrolled by state and federal funds...
...sick of people who try to accomplish the improbable regardless of the cost to others. I'd have had more respect for Erik if he'd spent all those months at home with his beautiful baby, showing her what a great dad he could be. MICHAEL GRAFF Chicago...
After losing her daughter to an auto accident caused by a driver using his cell phone, activist Patricia Pena launched a crusade to outlaw cell-phone use while driving. But regardless of how much sense it makes, I doubt we will ever see a ban on drivers' using cell phones. So instead of a campaign to eliminate their use, we should work with our elected officials to create legislation that would mandate severe punishment for anyone who causes an accident while driving and using a cell phone. No phone call is so important that a person must jeopardize the safety...
...More important, there's no evidence the federal government, regardless of how much it spends, can make sure these traits actually get taught (and learned). Thousands of schools have already introduced character education programs, in many different forms and with varying results. The most popular program, which now reaches more than one million students, is Character Counts! It avoids the kind of pedantic (and typically useless) lectures on virtue that many critics fear will be encouraged by the Bush grants. Schools that use Character Counts! integrate values-teaching throughout the curriculum: each month is devoted to one character trait, which...
...urban flux, tired of the shocks to his system as a lifetime of immutable values changed around him minute by minute. He put the "lump" in "lumpenproletariat." "All in the Family," the boundary-shattering comedy about what folks used to call "the generation gap," would have been a classic regardless, because of the passion of producer Norman Lear's ideas and the strength of his writing. But the show would not have had the resonance it did, and Archie Bunker would not be one of the three or four most important characters in TV history, without Carroll O'Connor...