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...promising method is Success for All, a tightly scripted reading program that has spread to 1,551 elementary schools in 48 states. The brainchild of husband-and-wife researchers at Johns Hopkins University more than a decade ago, the program aims to get at-risk kids academically up to speed with 90 minutes of daily intensive reading. The founders specify that 80% of a school's teachers must vote to adopt the program by secret ballot. Once they do, Success for All micromanages everything down to telling teachers to write questions for the class on Post-it notes to themselves...
Started in 1997 as the brainchild of former Goldman Sachs associates Joseph Park and Yong Kang, Kozmo.com attempts to bring immediate gratification to Internet consumers hungry to get their goods quickly...
...sophomore VES concentrator is engaged in a much more exciting project at the momentoshe has been commissioned to write a pilot for a risqu high school drama series slated to air on the Fox Network next year at the earliest. And although the project was originally the brainchild of a Fox producer, Rosow, a prize-winning young playwright, infuses it with a unique, artistic flavor as original as her choices at Leverettis salad...
...story in yesterday's Boston Globe reported that Harvard "has told the Massachusetts attorney general it is interested in helping rescue its brainchild by loaning the HMO millions of dollars...
...success of Question begat The $64,000 Challenge, in which those who had won $8,000 or more on Question could reappear. And then there was Twenty-One, which premiered on NBC Sept. 12, 1956. This program, chiefly the brainchild of producer Dan Enright, roughly adapted the rules of blackjack to a TV-quiz format: two contestants, two isolation booths, a series of questions worth from 1 to 11 points and drawn from 108 categories. Not only were these rules cutthroat; they were virtually impossible. No one would watch a show featuring two people being baffled by question after question...