Word: schooling
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...Allsburgs, who have no children, now live in Providence, where he teaches illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. He says his academic immersion in the subject had nothing to do with it, but the 13 pictures he produced for Swan Lake are stylistically among the most orthodox of his career. They could trace their lineage to the Scribner's children's classics of half a century ago, when the pictures of nonpareils like N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish graced the tissue-covered plates. Still, Van Allsburg retains his special dream aura in the brooding shadows in which...
...Episcopal Church, numerous bishops openly oppose the denomination's official stand against ordination of "practicing" homosexuals. Some clergy are promoting more radical opinions. Carter Heyward, one of the Episcopalians' pioneer female priests, is now an enthusiastic lesbian and a theology professor at the Episcopal Divinity School in Massachusetts. In a new book, Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God (Harper & Row; $12.95), Heyward says that for gays "fidelity to our primary relational commitments does not require monogamy." She even allows for some sadomasochism...
Kathy and Jeff Hewson of Ocean Township, N.J., faced a tough decision. Their son Christopher had turned five and was eligible to enter kindergarten. Christopher had already spent two years at nursery school, but its director felt he was "developmentally young." She recommended that kindergarten be delayed; the Hewsons agreed; and a year later they could not be happier with their choice. Christopher, who started kindergarten in September, is now a secure, energetic little boy who plays easily with his peers. "By keeping our son back last year, we gave him a gift," says Kathy. "We allowed...
...socially or physically immature children with autumn birthdays enter kindergarten at six, ( rather than five. The practice makes sense, Rescorla says, if parents have special concerns about their child's social development: "If it's interacting, cooperating, playing with others you're worried about, then keeping children in nursery school for another year is good. It's nursery school, not kindergarten, where these important skills are now being learned...
Eric Dlugokinski, a University of Oklahoma psychologist, believes five-year- olds need to spend some time away from home, but, for late bloomers, an academically oriented kindergarten may not be the right environment. If a child does poorly in a first school experience, "that failure is very hard to eradicate. You want a child's first experience in learning to be satisfying." He thinks kindergartens should de-emphasize early exposure to the ABCs and concentrate on what he calls an "emotional competence curriculum," meaning one that teaches children such social skills as how to share and how to deal with...