Word: program
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Teachers lucky enough to be part of the pre-International Baccalaureate program at Robinson Middle School in Wichita, Kans., are used to classes full of bright, motivated kids. But even in this heady environment, Tyler Emerson stands out. Tyler's 12-year-old mind runs deep, notes one of his sixth-grade teachers, Lura Atherly. "He questions things, but not with surface questions. He asks extending questions: Why? What if...?" When the class studied the Russian Revolution, Tyler wanted to discuss what would have happened if the Romanovs had escaped: What if they had come back after the fall...
Clinton has been on that program for weeks now. In recent days he has seemed to aides almost immune to personal embarrassment, fortified by the very fact of his survival and greeting every House Democrat with a fistful of polls showing that his support is holding up. Asked after the vote Thursday what he could do to turn things around, Clinton seemed almost meditative in his detachment. "It is not in my hands," he said. "It is in the hands of Congress and the people of this country--ultimately in the hands of God. There is nothing...
...else would we sign up our newborns for a class called Sing 'n Dance? It hardly mattered that my eight-week-old daughter Rachel had not yet mastered holding her head upright and was nowhere close to rolling over. She was considered the perfect age for the weekly program that promised a meaningful learning experience through rhythmic games, finger play and songs...
...spate of books such as Peggy Orenstein's Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap and Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, which spent nearly three years on best-seller lists, triggered a surge of creative solutions. A corporate-sponsored program, Take Our Daughters to Work Day, spread across the U.S. in an effort to encourage girls to examine varied careers. In Lincoln, Neb., teacher Jane Edwards partners with a local architectural firm to challenge high school girls to use technology, math and science to solve design problems. In Aurora, Colo., middle school teacher Pam Schmidt has created Eocene...
...inspire them, Saga developed techniques to combine different fur types and colors, as well as to dye, print, shave and twist fur and to treat it so that it can endure dry cleaning. It also helped designers get over any fur hang-ups with an education program. One of Saga's greatest successes has been to create fur that is lighter and thinner. It has made a fox-fur jacket that weighs less than a pound. And if there is one thing fashion people like, it's thin...