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...Harvard undergraduates who mentor children at the Ed Portal interviewed for this article say they have had positive experiences with the parents and children who they work with. Still, some mentioned the need to be mindful of tensions between the University and the community...
Each of the 17 mentors spends one afternoon a week at the Portal. Collectively, they work with more 90 local children...
Much of their work revolves around a discovery-based approach towards learning, with the children and the mentors designing and executing a variety of experiments...
What have you said to your kids about all this? We're not selling myths to our children. Parents are people too. Just like in any relationship, you go through a crisis, and you don't let it take you down. I'm proud that they get to go into their relationships with themselves and anyone else knowing that when a crisis happens, you don't have to panic. You don't have to take it personally, even if it's meant personally...
...ultimate passing of a bill, seems to have brought out far more serious threats - and a more serious response from law enforcement. Telephone and e-mail threats have escalated to vandalized gas lines, envelopes containing mysterious white powder, bricks thrown through windows and threats of sniper fire against children and grandchildren. Earlier this week, a man was arrested for making death threats against Senator Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat. Soon afterward, a California man was arrested for doing the same thing to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "The uptick in threats - I noticed it in the December time frame...