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...Black and White are ranked third behind No. 1 Princeton and No. 2 Wisconsin going into this weekend...
...unprecedented 25-year study, prepared by the University of Wisconsin and published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, focused on Chicago?s 23 Head Start centers. But instead of the comparitively loosy-goosy curriculums found at most Head Start programs, the 1,500 Chicago children were subject to an intensive preschool environment that included training in reading and numbers skills as well as considerable parental involvement. Researchers found that the 1,000 children who were enrolled in the programs, were more likely than the other 500 kids, whose parents sent them to few or no preschool sessions...
That's a view shared by the study's lead author. "It's more than just providing basic literacy skills," Arthur J. Reynolds, a professor of social work at Wisconsin, told the New York Times. "You've got to put parents in classrooms, as well as kids...
...reporting on Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. "A healthy percentage of your readers probably couldn't care less what Jesus saw or did," griped a Kansan. "Report on Jerusalem today, and leave the theology to someone else." "How nice to have news of the upcoming holiday!" a Wisconsin reader said sarcastically. "If Jesus is on the cover, and it's snowing outside, it must be Christmas. If it's raining, it must be Easter." And a man from Ohio wrote, "Jesus may sell magazines, but what a waste of time! Why not cover little green men from Mars? That...
...excels at pretty much everything around here. Steve grew up near Pewaukee, Wis., and lived on the site of an old lakeside amusement park that his grandfather had taken over and subdivided. His dad was in media too: he owned a billboard company. Steve attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Department of Serendipity: its motto is Excellence). In 1981, he became a reporter in the Business section, just in time to catch the din of the roaring '80s. He helped chronicle the rise of the business celebrity, writing covers on Michael Eisner and Ralph Lauren, and the consumer side...