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...reasoned, and you have a thematic catalyst that spans the three Rs, encompasses the arts and sciences and engages the mind in a voyage of self-discovery. Borden, now 59, decided to take his inspiration to local schools. By 1984 he had founded a nonprofit organization called For Spacious Skies and had begun publishing a 32-page guide for teachers, outlining ways in which the sky can stimulate learning. Since then, 17,000 copies have been scooped up, and "sky awareness" has entered curriculums in school districts from Lubbock, Texas, to Wausau...
Because the teaching guide is no more than a sketchy starting point, For Spacious Skies programs vary greatly from school to school. At suburban Hillside, for example, students listen to "sky music" ranging from Franz Josef Haydn's Sunrise Quartet to Tom Paxton's Even a Gray Day. In Pittsburgh's Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, Ruth Martin's fifth-graders write cloud-inspired haiku and use star charts to find constellations. The program seems to work as well in cities as in suburbia: Martin describes an eight- year-old "barely able to contain his excitement" at having spotted...
...Harvard Graduate School of Education, researchers have tried to evaluate the impact of For Spacious Skies programs on elementary school students. Using specially developed tests, researchers concluded that the artistic, musical and literary skills of students exposed to the programs improved much faster than did those of nonparticipating youngsters. Skies students scored 37% higher in music appreciation, 13% higher in literary skills and 5% higher in sensitivity to art. "Something happened to these kids," marvels Market Researcher Anton Morton, who helped analyze the results. "They learned much more and grew much more...
This job is all nails and glue. Israel and his seven-man crew will remove all the doors and windows, complete with jambs and frames, from the spacious room, as well as the thick sheets of mahogany paneling on the walls. They use specially designed tools to do so. "Nobody makes tools to go backward in construction," says Israel. "We have to make our own pry bars and nail cutters to get behind paneling and under plumbing fixtures...
Lynah's lewd, rude, and crude bunch of students will do anything to rattle an opposing netminder. Chant the goalie's name, label him a sieve (along with other spacious structures) and throw objects that would repulse many...