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...Local Adventures The books in Fodor's Around the City with Kids series are all by parents who live in the place they write about. For each of 15 U.S. and foreign cities covered by the series, the authors suggest exactly 68 museums, monuments and activities?kid tested and rated for age appropriateness. The books provide info boxes filled with trivia about the attractions, pointers to child- and adult-friendly places to grab a bite to eat and warnings about when it's wiser to pack a lunch. There's a game section to keep everyone occupied while waiting...
STEPHEN LEWIS The U.N.'s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa is the author of Race Against Time I suggest Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first female President. She has set an astonishing precedent by appointing a Cabinet of exact gender parity. Also Liberia's new woman President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who broke the monolithic boys' club of Africa. She will bring economic and social justice to her country. And Zackie Achmat, who leads the world's most important AIDS activist organization. He has brought hope to millions living with AIDS in Africa...
There is a small but hardy band of researchers who insist the dropout rates don't quite approach those levels. They point to their pet surveys that suggest a rate of only 15% to 20%. The dispute is difficult to referee, particularly in the wake of decades of lax accounting by states and schools. But the majority of analysts and lawmakers have come to this consensus: the numbers have remained unchecked at approximately 30% through two decades of intense educational reform, and the magnitude of the problem has been consistently, and often willfully, ignored...
...home education, which challenges so many fixed ideas. Teachers teach and parents raise. School is a societal glue. Brothers and sisters singing together is a little too twee. If society's aim with children is to help them become decent, happy and employable, there's little concrete evidence to suggest that homeschooling is a more flawed way of trying to achieve it than packing them off to school when they hit age five. And yet the unease persists. One day, you pass a primary school where a bunch of 10-year-olds of all colors and shapes are having...
...considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf” and Keith Antar Mason’s “for black boys who have considered homicide when the streets were too much,” two plays that deal with what it means to be black in America, might suggest that to perform each play by itself was, well, enough. But this season’s production by blackC.A.S.T., Harvard’s theater company dedicated to black community and student theater, attempts to fuse the two scripts into a new play, “when the rainbow is enuf...