Word: scholasticism
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The personnel work is educational, vocational, mental and physical. Freshmen are helped over that terrible first home-sickness; are encouraged in scholastic plans and athletic aspirations. A check is kept on their health.
At Dartmouth freshmen have an intelligence test within the first week or so of their arrival. Then as the term goes on scholastic marks are compared with the percentages indicated by the test. If a man whose test indicated that he belonged in the brightest 10 per cent., of the...
So is the issue that children are not equipped with the same critical eye toward popular culture, as problematic as it seems? Obviously children are a vulnerable population in terms of marketing and advertising cultural products. Do books, however, strike an especially sensitive nerve? Are books the one cultural medium...
After spending nearly 15 years in the drug and auto-parts industries, Winston, 42, just landed her first CFO job--in kids' books. She takes over the finances of Scholastic, the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's titles (2003 sales: nearly $2 billion; Harry Potter had something...
If your kids already have every SpongeBob DVD and game and still want more, the Nickelodeon Toon Twister 3-D from Scholastic ($20; Windows only) should keep them busy--at least for a while. The software helps you direct your own cartoon. First you pick characters, props and scenes from...