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...materials and books. One thing that Head Start should be able to do is make up for some of the environment that child in poor homes don't have. Letters, numbers, reading to children and having them follow along - these are things regularly taught to child in middle and upper-class homes, but routinely deprived in underprivileged homes. We need to make sure we have a program that works - sustained academic achievement so children can catch up with their middle class peers and be able to do well in their education...
...changers onto the Temple platform, which may have spurred Jesus' scourging of them in "my father's house." Joshua Schwartz, a professor of historical geography at Israel's Bar Ilan University, styles the stairway as a Judean version of London's Hyde Park Corner. There would be "beggars and upper-class Jews and Gentiles from all over," he says. "Scholars would be teaching, and would-be prophets would be preaching. The steps were the experience in Jerusalem...
...agreement here? The '50s were the decade of crucial change in American popular culture. Rock 'n' roll, lurid comic books, the Beats, Brando, teenage-werewolf movies and the mainstreaming of black performers signaled a transformation from old to young, smooth to raw, upper-class to underclass. But there was another '50s culture that ran parallel to this one, sometimes interacting with it but often commenting skeptically on it. One culture was hot and angry, the other cool and comic. One was the geyser, exploding with sexuality; the other the mainstream, flowing unroiled. One was radical, the other liberal...
...itself was initiated by former council president Noah Z. Seton '00 and by council member John Paul Rollert '00-'01 in 1998 to serve upper-class students whose schedules made it difficult for them to return to their own Houses for meals...
...biggest change in House policy since 1995's randomization, which eliminated student choice from upper-class House assignments. Behind the change, administrators and House masters said, was a desire to get students more involved in House community while making it easier for the College to regulate gender balances in the Houses...