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...Danville campus, opened the record of a 4-year-old boy coming in because of an earache, and his entire history, from birth, popped up on her screen. So did a yellow alert that recommended the boy participate in a study called Garden Gang, a pilot program designed to teach kids how to eat better. When Grauso-Eby scrolled down, it was clear why the computer flagged this kid: the preschooler weighed 80 lb. (36 kg) - off the digital chart that tracks his growth curve...
...afternoon TV show, which was aimed at kids and ran in Detroit, Los Angeles and New York off and on from the 1950s through the '70s, had the seeming informality of a friendly fellow you would hire to entertain the tots. He'd crack venerable jokes, play with puppets, teach the occasional verity ("Don't eat just before dinner") and, at the end, get a custard pie in the face. Simple stuff, really, but delivered with a brio that kept generations of children giggling. So his death on Thursday in a Bronx hospice, at age 83 after years of declining...
...panelists were also frustrated with the lack of practical preparation they received regarding how the theater industry works. “They should have an industry workshop where they teach people who want to act how to audition and how to get headshots because I didn’t know any of that,” Broadwater said. Stone agrees that a workshop is something that the HRDC could pull off with help from the A.R.T., which already teaches its students those basics...
...that more states mimic a model currently being used in Louisiana in which student test scores in grades 4-9 are traced back to their teachers, who are in turn traced back to their place of training, whether it be an ed school or an alternative certification program like Teach for America. (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...teach two fiction courses here at Harvard—“Intro to Fiction Writing” and “Advanced Fiction Writing.” What advice do you have for your students or other aspiring writers...