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...many as two-thirds of them have drifted out of their children's lives. According to a 1994 study by the Children's Defense Fund, men are more likely to default on a child-support payment (49%) than a used-car payment (3%). Even fathers in intact families spend a lot less time focused on their kids than they think: in the U.S. fathers average less than an hour a day (up from 20 minutes a few decades ago), usually squeezed in after the workday...
...dads have to spend time close to babies for hormones to kick in, and this hasn't always been possible. Today we take child survival for granted, but in traditional societies, 40% of offspring might die before age 5. To keep infants safe, it made sense for them to be held at all times. With Mom often caring for more than one offspring and Dad busy rustling up food, the job sometimes had to be outsourced to grandmothers, aunts and others...
...under the flawed assumption that tests rather than teachers should govern curriculum. Testing is simply a tool for measuring learning in the same way that a thermometer is an instrument for reading temperature. What would happen to the health of a nation if lawmakers tried to force doctors to spend a large portion of their time taking patients' temperatures instead of practicing medicine? The reality of NCLB is that it allows few children to get ahead...
...to speak some ugly truths you will never hear from politicians or school officials: this country is full of clueless, disengaged parents who can't or won't control their kids. Many of my students shamelessly admit they never study, do homework or read books for fun. Meanwhile, I spend a lot of instructional time shutting them up, waking them up and telling them to put away their cell phones. I love my job and my students, but I'm tired of taking all the blame for education's problems. Everyone needs to be held accountable...
...found Nancy Gibbs' "Pain in the Gas" mildly disturbing [June 4]. How can people not care about how much it costs to fill their car's tank? What about hardworking Americans like me who live check to check and simply cannot afford to spend $55 to $75 to fill up? I drive a 1989 Volvo, which gets 24 m.p.g., but I live far from work. I get less than a week's commute out of a tank of gas. I'm paying a lot of money that I can't really spare just...