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Dates: during 1990-1990
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INSTEAD of being encouraged by the success of the Class of '90, I was upset. Not only do I have many more summers as a bus greeter to look forward to, I will have to endure many more years of school and resume-building jobs as well...
Even as college becomes more prohibitive, it becomes ever more necessary for success in the labor market. In 1988, high school graduates earned 59 percent the wages and salaries of their college educated counterparts...
...method, developed in 1958, has had considerable success in Japan. Last year Kumon sent an old friend, retired auto dealer Takayoshi Sogo, to try to sell the program to American schools. So far, 196 in the South and Southwest have taken the offer. "I didn't see any reason why this system wouldn't work in America," says Sogo. "We have merely taken universal techniques and applied them to give each student the self-confidence to tackle his regular math courses...
...Texas panhandle, hunch over their desks and busily scribble on their work sheets. There is absolute silence. Keith Meiwes, a fourth-grader who was once intimidated by math, is now doing seventh- and eighth-grade classwork. Melissa Meyer and Amy Perrin also credit Kumon with their new success in math. "This program has helped to give them self- confidence, a better self-image and motivation," says principal Bill McLaughlin. Nonetheless, Walcott teacher Cathy Fury finds most students still need aid: "It has helped the poorer students most...
...predictably negative, and the Soviets passed. In the Reagan years, it is unlikely that Moscow would have forgone such an advantageous diplomatic move simply because of U.S. sensibilities. Like many such small gestures, that one too registered on Bush's calculus of Washington's stake in Gorbachev's success...