Word: extras
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...former Education Secretary William Bennett. The American Camping Association has fired off nasty letters to school districts considering shortening summer break and has sent representatives to educate local school boards on the lifelong benefits of camp traditions such as archery and lanyard weaving. Teachers, while generally glad for the extra work, also relish the downtime of the summer months. "We're seeing exhaustion in the profession like never before," says Lucy Calkins, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College. "It used to be that kids would leave school at 3 p.m. and teachers would chat in the faculty room...
...eight hours a day, 195 days a year. That schedule leaves just four weeks for summer break, but it means more time for students to hone their fundamentals and pursue electives like art and music. How much more time? If Parish sticks to this regimen through 12th grade, the extra days and hours will add up to almost four more years of schooling...
After a lengthy discussion of Thompson's reading reforms, the couple were intrigued. The program targeted kids with reading problems, providing them with extra instruction and involving the parents, many of whom couldn't read. It had been tested on 805 first-grade students in six school districts during the 1998-99 school year, and the results were impressive. At low-performing schools where most first-graders had shown no progress toward reading, a majority now advanced at a normal rate. But, says Thompson, "we couldn't take it to scale. We had all these schools with all this need...
...Sixth Sense (1999) DCFT "Rules and Clues" segment walks through a plethora of hints to the movie's secret; extra footage includes an extended ending (spoiler: Bruce's still dead...
This doesn't mean there aren't good reasons to get rid of the estate tax. For one, it penalizes generosity: if Bill Gates spends $1 million buying caviar, he doesn't pay an extra tax (beyond sales tax on all those fish eggs), so why should he pay one for giving $1 million to his kids? Proponents of the estate tax respond that it nabs income that, thanks to loopholes, would never have been taxed at all. They also argue that it breaks up large concentrations of wealth, encouraging the children of the rich to earn their...