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...pretty motivated and skilled at persuading school boards to sustain classes that provide something special for their children. In an era in which gaining admission to top-shelf high schools and colleges has become a blood sport, self-interest trumps community building most of the time. In Montclair, N.J., lawsuits brought by African-American parents in the late 1980s forced Montclair High School to detrack one course--ninth-grade literature--so that students of all abilities and test scores would sit next to each other and read the same books. School officials say students who previously went unnoticed are flourishing...
...brain. Ultimately, it is the environment that determines how these genes will express themselves. In another setting, for example, it is easy to imagine that Hamer might have become a high school dropout rather than a scientist. For while he grew up in an affluent household in Montclair, N.J., he was hardly a model child. "Today," he chuckles, "I probably would have been diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder and put on Ritalin." In his senior year in high school, though, Hamer discovered organic chemistry and went from being an unruly adolescent to a first-rate student. What people are born...
...says that the national championship will be at "Monclaire" University. This is presumably, in beautiful frenchified English, "Monclaire, New Jersey, known to the rest of us as Montclair. --Danny J. Boggs '65 Louisville...
BORN: Sept. 19, 1929, West Orange EDUCATION: Montclair State College, B.A., 1951 FAMILY: Husband, Richard; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: High school government and history teacher POLITICAL CAREER: Ridgewood Board of Education, 1970-73; U.S. House, 1980- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 625, Ridgewood...
Jeff Glasser, 21, a senior from Montclair, J.J., said the graduate students' submission "shows an unlucky weakness" in the group's rank and file...