Word: workbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marks and the risk that he might lose the scholarship. Pingatore had an idea for bringing up Carl's grade-point average. He had Carl enroll in two correspondence courses -- American government and civics -- at the Loretto Extension Service in Wheaton, Ill. Carl did assignments in a workbook under the tutelage of Pingatore. He received an A in both courses. The grades were recorded on his regular high school transcript. There was no reference on the transcript to any correspondence courses. The only thing to set the courses apart was the postgraduation completion date...
...Bianca saw him only occasionally before he became ill and died when she was not yet four years old. "You don't miss what you don't know," says Sherri, dismissing any relevance to Bianca's life. Recently, Bianca was asked for her father's name in a school workbook. She wrote in Leonard's name...
Sung Woo Choi, 6, is working at it. "There is just one fish," he reads aloud from his school workbook. "There are three birds." The lower lip is bitten. The forehead wrinkles. With great deliberation he draws a circle around the three birds. At Sung's school, P.S. 89 in Elmhurst, English is not the native tongue of fully half the 1,500 students. All told, they speak 38 different languages. Throughout the New York public school system, there are 113,000 such children, most of them helped along by 2,100 bilingual teachers. But P.S. 89 is singular. There...
There are "station breaks," while the young listeners fill out workbook exercises, and scripted phone-in voices of children who talk to Bill about their experiences. Those who complete the workbook can get a certificate that says, "This special person has permission to say no to uncomfortable touching and will tell...
...most would-be abusers back off quickly if a child issues a firm no. One parent told Martin that her five-year-old, a fan of Hands-Off Bill, said no to a baby-sitter who was trying to molest her. The child, added the mother, then showed the workbook to the babysitter, who read it and went for therapy...