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...Marsh Dale Cline, a seasoned public school teacher. His son Dale R. Cline was a member of the board and also groomed the school grounds. After cycling through several board members and surviving one aborted takeover attempt, the senior Cline resigned last summer. His son, who freely admits "my background's not education," took the helm with another manager and opened the school with a new charter and a different sponsor...
...took a while to get comfortable (like about the first quarter), but I finally started making headway with the machine at my seat. You can follow the game (why watch the real thing when you can see it on a tiny screen!), access player stats and pull up background news and video. The coolest application is a function that lets you watch the game from any of 12 angles - you decide which one. Moreover, you can call up instant replays at any time, from any of those 12 vantage points...
...Husseini's political credentials weren't based only on his family background. He was jailed by the Israelis several times, and that earned him tremendous respect among Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank. He was not a leader who fought the battle from Tunis (headquarters of Yasser Arafat and the PLO until the Oslo Accord allowed them to return to Ramallah and Gaza). He remained behind and expressed his national feeling on the ground, and went to jail for it. And one of the more important things about his legacy, also, was that his name was never mentioned...
...minutes into third period on a recent morning, four pastors of different denominations have packed into child-size chairs in the computer lab at Hand Middle School in Columbia, S.C. They bow their heads and close their eyes, and with 25 computer monitors purring in the background, the Rev. Cole Weathers leads a brief invocation: "Almighty God, help us make a positive difference in the lives of children." Then the group gets down to business, divvying up the remaining $1,200 of the $1,600 that their churches have collected this year for the school. A pizza party is planned...
Both schools and parents need to change. Joyce Epstein, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who has spent two decades studying children, families and schools, has found that parental involvement in a child's education--more than a family's educational background--can be one of the strongest predictors of a child's academic success. Activities like sitting on school steering committees and running capital campaigns, which may make parents feel committed, have a negligible effect on kids' achievements. Much more fruitful are the connections parents make with their children at home, dissecting what happened in class that...