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Consider the Elster case. On a Saturday afternoon, almost exactly a year ago, several students saw an individual led out of Kirkland House by Harvard police officers. The next day, at Kirkland's regular Sunday House committee meeting, the masters vaguely alluded to some unfortunate incident that had occurred and asked the students to remain calm and supportive. When pressed for details, the masters refused to elaborate...
...party officials are expected to commit to the hyperattentive Gore. Bradley says his long silence was not so much about snubs as about soul-searching. And his staff believes his ruminations will help him find ways to inspire voters--people who don't belong to the party machine, regular people who can see past the thrumming economy, who aren't feeling rosy. It's an unusual, even heretical tactic...
Even with such promising new services and techniques, the battle to integrate the disabled more thoroughly into regular working life is far from over. Formidable obstacles remain. In the U.S., one of the most difficult issues involves health care. "What happens if you get a job that doesn't have health insurance?" asks EEOC Commissioner Miller. "You lose your Medicare benefits, which you greatly need once you get that job, and then you can't purchase a separate health plan because of a pre-existing condition." The answer, he feels, is possibly to amend the Medicare and Medicaid system regarding...
Educators agree that parents should be vigilant about making sure such a healthy blend is maintained. Everyone frowns on parents' doing homework for their kids, but most agree that parents should monitor homework; offer guidance, not answers, when asked for help; and give teachers regular reports on how their kids are handling it all. Gail Block, a fifth-grade language-arts instructor in San Francisco who feels that homework helps overcome the limits of time in the classroom, was nonetheless surprised to hear that her student Molly Benedict takes close to three hours a night to finish. Pepperdine president Davenport...
...think more homework will make a more successful adult." Maybe not, but wisely assigned homework may help make a more successful, well, child. "It is all about learning responsibility," says Janine Bempechat, an assistant professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. "When you have homework on a regular basis, you learn persistence, diligence and delayed gratification...