Word: winnetka
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...head of that agency in years, seems to be treading lightly around broadcasters on the children's-TV issue, possibly because he lacks support from his fellow commissioners: "I would like the sweet power of persuasion to be the key to success." He might have a receptive audience in Winnetka, Illinois, where members of the Winnetka Alliance for Early Childhood became so concerned over the pervasive negative influence of the Power Rangers that they organized a TV Tune-Out week last winter. Says Winnetka developmental psychologist Jeanne Beckman: "If parents would sit down and watch that program from beginning...
After the game, the city newspapers all made fun of Tripp's name. How preppy. How Grosse Point (or Scarsdale or Winnetka). How snooty. How Harvard...
Born in a North Chicago neighborhood, son of agynecologist father and writer mother, Turow movedto Winnetka, and affluent Chicago suburb when hewas...
...numerous hearings and appeals required. Part of the difficulty is that the probationary period before tenure is granted, a mere three years in most states, is too short. Also, administrators generally do a poor job of scrutinizing tenure candidates. Henry Bangser, superintendent of New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill., estimates that it can take more than three years from the time a tenured teacher is judged incompetent by a principal until that teacher has exhausted the appeal process...
...Morris High in the South Bronx, where water cascades down the stairways when it rains, and Chicago's Du Sable High, where the chemistry teacher uses a popcorn popper as a Bunsen burner. Kozol juxtaposes these images with descriptions of the luxurious facilities in nearby wealthy suburbs like Winnetka, north of Chicago. Its New Trier High has, among other things, seven gyms, rooms for fencing, wrestling and dance instruction, and an Olympic-size pool...