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That's how alien Michael (Quinton Aaron) appears to most of the students and faculty at Wingate Christian School. The abandoned son of a crack-addict mom (his father vanished and was murdered years later), he's the kind of kid for whom a written test looks like a scrawl in hieroglyphics, as foreign to him as a quick pass to the wideout might be to a more studious child. It asks him to strain muscles he has never been encouraged to use. His teachers dismiss him as stupid, illiterate, unteachable; his classmates shy away from him; and the ladies...
While your story was well written and researched, it pretty much overlooked all but rich, suburban whites. What world is the writer living in? Certainly not the inner New York City one in which I teach college--the real, food-insecure world that represents the 21st century American experience for many of us. Most working parents I know are too busy trying to put food on the table to have time for "overparenting...
...past, Smith has emphasized that over half of the Faculty's budget is written over to compensation for staffers and professors...
...We’re looking at the effects of Twitter on student engagement and student success,” said Junco, who has also written books about the use of technology in education...
...August letter written by global AIDS coordinator Goosby to U.S. ambassadors in PEPfAR countries indicates that the Administration doesn't believe that balance is possible in the current economic climate. "The landscape around us is changing, with the need to balance a broad portfolio of global challenges at a time of financial crisis," he wrote. "As a result, we need to plan for the next stage of PEPfAR's development in this context and cannot assume the dramatic funding growth of PEPfAR's early years will be repeated." One of the original PEPfAR goals was to attain universal access (defined...