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Recess, every child’s favorite subject, is slowly disappearing from American public schools. According to the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), over 40 percent of elementary schools have eliminated or are considering eliminating it. Administrators at these schools argue that impressionable children should be protected from overly competitive games and accidents that unstructured play can provoke. Of course, the implication, much of the time, is that the potential for lawsuits will also be minimized. While we sympathize with the pressures that have instigated this trend, we believe that it is ultimately harmful to the welfare of today?...
...young teacher with an Ivy League degree, Parris bridges two distinct worlds: one where students pay more than $41,000 to go to college and another where 45 percent of students qualify for free lunch...
Harvard students who go into teaching enter a profession in which 40 to 50 percent of new teachers leave within five years, according to a 2003 University of Pennsylvania study. But Parris, the physics teacher, said that students who complete the program will be long-lasting members of the teaching pool...
Christopher Avery, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, has been involved with evaluating the program from its inception. According to Avery’s research, 50 percent of the first class of students at the start of the program expected college to be their highest level of education. By the end of the third summer, 77 percent of the students expected to earn some type of graduate degree...
According to Avery, 56 percent of the original CSA class described themselves as more self-confident as a result of the program...