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...toilet train them; how early can we get them into the most exclusive preschool?" Jack Wetter, a clinical psychologist in West Los Angeles, says he observed a goldilocked four-year-old in preschool. "I asked her what she was doing, and she replied, 'Can't talk now. Working on Workbook 2. Going to Workbook...
...abstinence-only movement dates back to a Reagan-era program that set aside $2 million a year for the development of classroom materials to teach adolescents to say no to sex. Today there are more than a dozen competing curriculums on the market, each offering lesson plans, activities and workbook exercises designed to encourage abstinence among teenagers...
Organizing Step Forward somewhat like a classroom workbook, Webb comes across more like a friendly high school teacher than a corporate consultant, lacing her account with anecdotes and case studies. Examples...
Teacher Savage, 64, often works seven days a week and sends home all missed math questions and spelling errors for parental inspection. Each weekend she prepares sheets for every child detailing the workbook pages to be completed on a daily basis for the next week. Because she must rely heavily on these telephone directory-size texts full of student exercises, she loses in spontaneity what she gains in regularity. But, she says flatly, "there is no other way I could do this...
Wong also cited the Workbook's statistics on the amount of energy savedby recycling. "Virgin materials cost a lot more to process," Wong said. "Aluminum recycling saves 95 percent of the energy which would normally be put into aluminum production, while recycled paper uses only half of the energy that regular production would consume...