Word: parents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, they found a cryptic memo from Editor Edward Kosner summoning them to a 10:30 meeting at Top of the Week, the conference room on the 40th floor of the magazine's Manhattan headquarters. When they arrived, they were surprised to find Katharine Graham, chairman of the parent Washington Post Co. Recounted one writer: "People began to murmur, 'God, we're closing down ... We've been bought...
...Since 1970 the number of families headed by a woman rose 43%, from 5.6 million to 8 million. Divorce is now so common, the report added, that nearly half of all children born today can expect to spend a meaningful portion of their lives before age 18 in single-parent families. The report did not speculate on what psychological effects that may have on the young...
Within the framework of its financial aid operations, Harvard operates the Parent Loan Plan (PLP), begun with the Class of '80 which helps students with family incomes ranging from $15,000 to $50,000. The plan uses a variety of loans, grants and student work opportunities to allow parents to pay off their debts to Harvard in eight years of monthly installments. Administrators say the plan has increased the yield--the number of accepted students who actually attend--of middle-income students. Before the PLP the yield among students in this range was about ten percentage points lower than other...
...more than 4 million students. The New York-based publisher of a booklet series, Teachers Guides to Television, does not offer scripts but presents detailed assignments. (For Battlestar Galactica suggested reading is Jules Verne, and studying the astronomy of Ptolemy and Kepler.) The same company also prepares outlines for parent-child discussions of TV shows. "A fictional story offers a family the chance to discuss matters that are otherwise difficult to bring up," observes Guides Editor Gloria Kirshner...
Inevitably, school closings are more painful to parents than to students. "Kids don't care that much," says one parent,"as long as they can be a crossing guard at the new school. Kids, you know, don't know a thing about property values...