Word: programming
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...members of the Boy Scouts Advisory Council live in Salt Lake City, Utah, home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Latter-day Saints constitute less than 2% of the U.S. population but 21% of the boys in the core Boy Scouts program, more than any other group...
...tawdry yet elevating professor-student affair. This has been an ancient and honored practice, and it is difficult to imagine a college without it. In an online program, one still may picture the virtual leering in the lecture hall and the virtual invitation to the professor's home to discuss the student's work in virtual privacy. But how will one re-create the moment when the professor's wife, who never understood him, suddenly does, and the affair is over, and the student--sadder but wiser--realizes that she is no longer a girl but a woman and that...
...course given by the sensitive teaching fellow who wants to bring some feeling back to this goddam heartless place. In an online program, who will teach Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 201: "Gay, Female, Korean and Living: Where Is the Love?"? Who will teach Social Protest and Profit: "Capitalist Swine: A Guide to Applying for Government Grants...
...have settled with the police on the street for $10." Says Heredia, a onetime Aspen dishwasher who now works as a court interpreter: "It's a shock to come from the worst poverty into the richest country with no guidance." His two-year-old How to Live in America program is a formal part of the courts' sentencing process in nine Colorado counties. "I'm not seeing repeaters anymore," says Judge Terri Diem of Eagle County, where DUI cases have dropped 40% among Hispanics since...
Back in Bloomfield, the school board is seeking federal grant money to expand its laptop program to high school students. In the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to goof off or visit unauthorized websites. But teachers have the ability to track where students have been on the Web and to restrict them. "That is the worst when they disable you," says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. "You go through laptop withdrawal." The habit is rubbing off on parents. "I taught my mom to use e-mail," says another eighth...