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...school-district employees; they work for a nonprofit organization called Good Shepherd Services. Every New York transfer school and YABC is paired with a community-based organization that focuses on the social, emotional and family issues that tend to weigh down these students. "We don't have the expertise for these complex challenges," explains schools chancellor Joel Klein, who heads the New York City Department of Education. The academic staff is also enthusiastic about the partnership. "Teachers can focus on the best way to educate students," says South Brooklyn's principal, Vanda Belusic-Vollor. "That's huge...
...clock is ticking for his 310 students. The goal: get them to graduation before they hit 21 and age out of the system. YABCS stress efficient scheduling. To attend, students must have spent at least four years in high school and have accumulated at least 17 credits. "Their transcripts tend to be a mess," says Michele Cahill, who helped create the Multiple Pathways program and is now at the Carnegie Corporation. Students might be missing the second half of algebra and three years of phys ed. "Ordinary high schools are not set up to deal with these kinds of gaps...
...polls suggest they have increased their lead in the generic party competition since then. It's true, as Republicans hope, that two years in the congressional majority may burden Democrats with some perceived responsibility for the country's allegedly parlous state. But the presidency and the President will still tend to dominate the news and be held accountable--and the Bush Administration is proving particularly adept at providing ever fresh instances of scandal, pseudo scandal and incompetence to remind people they're in charge...
...International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, who spent 13 years inside Israeli high-security prisons interviewing convicted terrorists. And yet it remains difficult to pinpoint why certain women turn to martyrdom. Behind the motives of religion and rage at Israeli occupation, Palestinian women, far more than men, tend to choose self-sacrifice as an exit from personal despair, while others are pushed into it for having broken taboos in strict Palestinian society. "These women are both victimizers and victims," Berko says...
After years of study by Berko and other counterinsurgency experts, a profile of Palestinian women suicide bombers is emerging. Male suicide bombers tend to be introverts, the women less so. The women are older and better schooled than their male counterparts. Whereas the men are usually in their late teens and early 20s with scant education, studies carried out by Shin Bet, the Israeli version of the FBI, on 67 women recruited to become suicide bombers from 2002 to 2005 found that 33% were college graduates and an additional 39% had finished high school...