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This new breed of romantic counseling--equal parts sex ed, social science and Dear Abby--is now being offered as formal courses at colleges and high schools across the country. Over two weekends, Pearson's students learn methods developed by researchers at the University of Denver and used for marital counseling in churches and in the military. They watch videos of fighting couples and discuss how conflicts can spiral out of control. They learn tidy formulas for success and failure in love: the three characteristics of successful couples (one is a man who can accept influence from a woman...
Last month, the State Board of Education invited the charter school to submit a formal charter proposal. But last night, the school committee voiced its opposition to the creation of the school and asked the board to reject the proposal...
...scrappy rockers, ages 11 to 17, are students at North Star Academy, a public charter school in Newark, N.J., that had no formal music curriculum three years ago. Now it hosts a small but rollicking before-school guitar class run by Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that doles out free instruments and lessons in popular music in more than 120 public schools in Newark, New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area and Memphis, Tenn. At a time when already anemic school arts budgets are dwindling, the unconventional program is thriving and enjoying a bit of fortuitous buzz...
Through a series of formal speeches as well as more personal face time, the politicians united around a shared vision of student engagement and opposition to President Bush...
...Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republicans have in common? They are not merely “politically charged, gender-neutral organizations” or “intellectual circles”—they are places for a certain kind discourse centered on the minutiae of formal political structures. Further, the very fact of their prominently male membership makes them anything but “gender-neutral.” I’m not surprised they don’t appeal to most women on this campus, because they don’t appeal...