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...LeapFrog learning toys (www.leapfrog.com), and this year the company has a bumper crop. Fans of the Colbert Report may have seen Stephen playing with the 100 Hoops basketball counting game ($25, ages 3-6); he jokingly called it a ?threat? because it teaches kids English and Spanish. There?s another cute bilingual counting game for kids in the 6-36 month age group ? the Learn & Groove Counting Maracas...
...Rhodes Scholar, an honor she refers to as “a grant to read over the summer.” But before she transplants herself to Oxford University, where she will “read” theology, she will have to finish her senior thesis for the English and American Literature and Language department. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...softer side: he is a TeaLuxe devotee and adores his mother’s farina, a traditional Nigerian dish. He arrived at Harvard hoping to become an entertainment lawyer, but shifted gears to pursue advocacy and social change, increasingly conscious of his Trenton, N.J. roots. He switched concentrations from English to African studies, and developed an affinity for Marx. Amutah criticizes Harvard students who realize that their career choices will have an adverse effect on society, but “don’t care enough to change [them].” “A lot of people don?...
...global perspective. The panel also studied the education policies in countries such as Singapore, whose students routinely ace international proficiency exams. And the group consulted education chiefs from states that were early adopters of tougher standards, including Indiana, Oregon and Arkansas-all of which require four years of English and at least three years of math and science...
...goal was to craft rigorous learning standards that would give students the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in college and in the 21st century workplace. The group recommended that every Michigan student, whether college-bound or not, be required to complete four years of English and math; three years of science and social studies; two years of foreign language; one year of phys ed; one in a course covering visual, performing or applied arts, as well as an online course-not necessarily for credit-offered by Michigan's web-based Virtual High School or another Internet instruction provider...