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...idyll, but the centerpiece of a complicated social arrangement and a daunting challenge for a lone teacher, who may have to juggle pupils in as many as nine grades with creativity and coherence. At Pine Grove, which has a total of nine students in eight grades, first-grader Becky Stanton meanders through a paragraph about American Indians while sixth-grader Nicole Phipps, sitting inches away, considers the difference between a kilometer and a hectometer. Their teacher, Elaine Savage, moves smoothly from one girl to the other. "They're growing corn and beans," Savage explains to Becky. And, in the next...
...classroom, Cal Phipps, Nicole's eighth-grade cousin, reads about peristalsis for science. His younger brother Chad and fellow fourth-grader Chan Childers pursue phonics at their desks. Chan's second-grade sister Nolan wrestles solo with a spelling exercise, and Renee Stanton, Becky's seventh- grade sister, is engrossed in the Civil War for social studies...
...isolation of the one-room school leaves many students starved for greater contact with peers and more extracurricular activities. "I was bored out there," says Wendy Stanton, 15, who attended Pine Grove and now boards in Jordan as a high school freshman. "You miss your friends...
...coming from movement leaders, like Anne Wilson Schaef, author of When Society Becomes an Addict and Co-Dependence: Misunderstood, Mistreated. She now calls the term outdated and argues that it should be modernized with a new concept of relationship -- sex, love or romance -- addiction. Social psychologist and therapist Stanton Peele, author of Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control, rejects the idea of addiction as a disease and questions the A.A. 12-step model's effectiveness. He charges, "We no longer have a moral basis on which to disapprove of, or respond to, misbehavior. We have given self-declared...
...HOMECOMING. Harold Pinter's signature drama of menacing silences and family mistrust enjoys a shrewd 25th-anniversary revival at Harvard's American Repertory Theater, acted by esteemed-in-the-business veterans Jeremy Geidt and Christine Estabrook and up-and-comers Robert Stanton and Steven Skybell...