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...concentrate more on substantive change. They are: Program Evaluation, which evaluates the strength and effectiveness of programs that affect children, such as HAND; Innovative Schools Initiative, which looks at how schools are structured, organized and managed; Children's Health, a two-part program with Cambridge Rindge and Latin and Maynard Elementary School, designed to both establish a curriculum based on issues such as drugs and sex and to evaluate kindergarten entry point; and finally, the non-operational Math and Science prong, which is designed to teach teachers more math and science with the participation of retired faculty from Harvard...
...model of civility, with two fundamentally decent men running fundamentally positive campaigns: Carter promising "a government as good...as the people," Ford coming from behind to near victory with a campaign featuring the jingle I'm Feeling Good About America. During that race, however, debate panelist Robert Maynard asked the candidates how much responsibility they were prepared to accept for the "low tone" of the campaign...
School board meetings were scary for the Maynards. "It was like walking into a Klan meeting," recalls Cathy Maynard, Jonathan's mother. "People we lived beside for generations will no longer talk to us. We didn't choose the role. We did what any good parents would...
While the venom facing the Maynard family is rare, the conflict that spawned it is not. Federal and state laws require educational help for children with a wide range of physical, cognitive and emotional disabilities. But having passed the bills that mandate this help, Congress and state legislatures across the country have been parsimonious with the money to pay the added costs. This leaves the financial burden on the localities and produces intense conflict between parents and school officials...
...huge strides have been made to improve the plight of special-needs students. "The question now being asked is how can we do it, as opposed to should we do it," says Judith Heumann, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. The bad news is that the Maynards plan to move away from the farm that has been in their family for 120 years as soon as Jonathan has completed his program in Connecticut. "It's not getting better. We can't possibly bring him back," says Cathy Maynard. "We're lepers in our own community...