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...school supplies, filed past banners bidding WELCOME BACK and HAVE A GREAT YEAR. After a brief morning meeting, the classes settled down and eased right into the 90-minute reading lesson that starts each day. "I don't get nervous anymore for the first day of school," says fourth-grader Parish Brown. "I feel like I never really stop coming...
...raised their scores, and one landed among the state's best performers. The longer year is so popular, reports principal JoAnn Bester Clay, that some parents and children want to abolish summer break. "I don't have a real vacation, since all I do is sit home," says sixth-grader La'Chet Henderson. "This gives me something...
When former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale and his wife Sally visited Lee Elementary School in Jackson, Miss., swarms of children reached out to high-five them, introduce themselves and show their latest drawings. Jim, dressed in khakis and open-collar shirt, strolled into a classroom and took a third-grader's seat. He crouched forward as each small student read aloud from the The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse--some in clear, proud voices; others in low, hesitant tones. Sally soothingly helped when they stumbled over a word, and Jim encouraged them to read with inflection...
Barksdale had trouble reading as a third-grader, but his parents got him a tutor, and he went on to become an excellent student. "I've since wondered what might have happened," he says, "had I not got the extra attention...
Spiesel's achievement is of Velcro-on-snowsuits magnitude. Think of a mother executing nits one by one as she combs out her second-grader's hair. She knows she's in for a 45-min. search-and-destroy mission. She's irritated by the knowledge that she's bound to miss a few of the tiny things and will have to go through the entire process again in a couple of days. Now think of the second-grader's hair washed in Dr. Spiesel's shampoo, which was developed in response to a head-lice epidemic...