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...visited Harvard in February 1995, when he gave an address at the Kennedy School as part of the Seventh Annual Harvard Asian American Intercollegiate Conference. The visit was sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Asian American Association...
...teachers share a common passion, one Stanford staff member fairly pants at the opportunity to help students. She is Apache Rose, a four-year-old German shorthaired pointer and a licensed therapy dog belonging to physical-education teacher Monica Havelka. Apache was brought to school for the seventh-grade programs in health, science and phys ed, but she has become so popular that she now has kids of diverse backgrounds talking about her. She even has her own program to train older kids to handle therapy dogs--Apache Rose and Friends, or simply and cutely...
...idea had been to create a secondary school in New York City's East Harlem in which less was more. Smaller and fewer classes meant increased individual attention and a deeper understanding of subjects. She built the school a grade at a time, starting with the seventh in '85, until the school had a Division I for seventh- and eighth-graders, a Division II for ninth- and 10th-graders and a Senior Institute for 11th- and 12th-graders--546 students in all this year, with 41 full-time staff members...
...separate schools or even separate buildings. In fact, only about 105 of Marina's 810 students are separated so far; the rest attend typical coed classes. Michaelson started the single-sex experiment by setting aside two rooms within the hulking blue-and-white Art Deco edifice--one for 30 seventh-grade boys and one for 30 seventh-grade girls. While boys and girls in these single-sex "academies" spent most of the day apart, they mixed during one or two elective periods and socialized during lunch. "This way the kids get the best of both," says Michaelson...
...Though seventh-graders in Marina's single-sex program had the option of switching to coed classes, few did. At year's end the results were encouraging. "In general, their attention was more on their academic activities," says Lorraine Perry, 50, who taught science and math in both single-sex academies last year. As Perry hoped, the girls flourished away from male competition. The surprise was that the boys thrived too. "They were a little more open," says Perry, "to admitting that they didn't understand something than if there had been girls in class...