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...never written for children before 1986, when she decided to try her hand at textbooks. Inspired by a University of Minnesota study that claimed kids retained 40% more information from passages written by journalists than by academics, Hakim, a former editor at the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and a onetime teacher, began working on A History of US. The series was everything that conventional textbooks were not. Her books were not written by a committee, are structured around characters and stories rather than facts and dates and were kid-approved before publication. Hakim paid local children to edit her manuscripts...
After installing HIP, student test scores at Walt Whitman rose 20%. Karrol-Lee Richards, a seventh-grader, says HIP helped improved her grades from C's to A's. "I log in about four times a day to get advice from the teacher," says Richards. Keys plans to further HIP's reach by allowing students to interact with one another as well. "I just wanted a phone person and a computer person to be able to talk," says Keys. So far, HIP has been a conversation starter. --By Peter Bailey
Once Fee arrived at Harvard, she delved into a myriad of extracurricular activities. A CityStep teacher throughout her four years at Harvard, she served on the executive board during her junior year. “CityStep sucks you in,” Fee acknowledges, “but it’s great to have a diverse group of people who become so bonded...
...always wanted to do three things,” says Safo. “I want to be a doctor, a teacher and a librarian. I’ll be a librarian when I’m 70 and I can’t think any more...
...student went on to become a drug addict,” he joked. “And the teacher went on to become a scientist in the Bush administration...