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Wampler and her students illustrate the latest math concept in elementary education: kindergarten = first grade. Kindergarten--so fondly remembered by baby boomers for show-and-tell and building blocks--has changed. Standardized curriculum and testing in primary schools are causing what educators call "push-down" academics. The need to perform well on tests filters down, landing on the youngest learners. As a result, kindergartners spend less time on social skills while interacting with one another in the "dress-up corner" or building wood-block skyscrapers. They spend more time sitting still, listening to the teacher and drilling on the basics...
...distinctive look of this issue is the work of Sharon Okamoto and Jay Colton. The next issue of Visions 21 will focus on society and will appear early next year. Don't miss our newsmagazine show on CNN, which is doing a companion series of one-hour shows based on Visions 21. And, as always, we welcome your comments (and future questions) at time.com/v21...
...pictures of her dog that fetched $222,500. Singer Mariah Carey laid out $660,000 for a piano, and designer Tommy Hilfiger ponied up $112,000 for jeans and cowboy boots. The sale's highest price went to an item with perhaps the least to show for itself: owners of a collectibles shop paid nearly $1.3 million for the all-but-bare dress Monroe wore in 1962 when she sang Happy Birthday to President Kennedy...
Luckily, a bevy of syndicated hour-long action series is filling the need--Baywatch without the plot. The best among them is Pamela Anderson Lee's V.I.P. And with that show's ratings success last season and the continued popularity of the trend-setting Xena: Warrior Princess, syndicated television has created five more female action shows, many of which involve very little action but a whole lot of show...
...belief that there was not only a great character to portray but also a fortune to be made from her universal charms that interested Lee in V.I.P. "I took a lower salary on this show because I felt the back end could really be meaningful," says the woman famous for adding meaning to her front end. "I know a lot about syndication and what appeals to the international market. I make sure there are a lot of physical gags and comedy, explosions and beautiful scenery...