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This week's lead education story, for example, is written by Andrew Goldstein, who knows a bit about class cutups and brawlers from his days as a teacher and dean of students at a private school in New Jersey. Andrew's story examines an innovative Baltimore, Md., program that takes disruptive students out of the middle schools and sends them to a boarding school in Kenya, where many have turned their life around. The idea for this story came from deputy picture editor Hillary Raskin, who picked it up from photographer Radhika Chalasani, who had followed students to Kenya...
...decides which words get in the dictionary? I do, actually. "We have a systematic program for reading publications like TIME," says Pickett, "looking for examples of new words and new uses of old words." This knowledge is unsettling. Take "pizza face," a hurtful name once hurled at me as an acne-afflicted teen. Never do I want to see this epithet enshrined in a major dictionary, and yet by using it, as I just did, I've probably guaranteed its inclusion in the next edition...
...According to the Wall Street Journal, the greatest infusion of cash came from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in the form of a $10 million, advantageously arranged loan. "They were not able to raise the money through regular channels," says Sarah Clark, head of the foundation's population program. "It didn't surprise me. It makes...
...publicly funded "scholarships," or vouchers, Lopez, a father of five, sends two of his daughters to a Roman Catholic girls' school a few blocks from their home on the south side of Milwaukee, Wis. Rather than place their children across town in the public school system's gifted program, Lopez and his wife Monica opted for a neighborhood private school that offers smaller classes and better communication between teachers and parents. The Lopezes are so pleased with their family's three-year experience in the Milwaukee program--the oldest and largest U.S. public voucher initiative--that they're reconsidering...
...creating the most confusion among voters--is school vouchers, a controversial reform that uses tax dollars to help parents send their kids to private schools or hire private tutors. Statewide voucher proposals are on the ballot in California and Michigan. And George W. Bush advocates a federal voucher program that Gore opposes...