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...When undergraduate students talk about going to MIT or Harvard, we tend to think that these students are over-reaching their goals,” White says. “Not so with Glenn—Harvard and MIT were in a very heated competition to receive Glenn as a graduate student...
...businesses in the Square tend to open in the spring—last year, 10 new businesses opened in the area between April and June...
...Sydney University encourages role-playing by students, who take turns posing as parents, but this isn't the norm. Dosed up on theory, graduates are "unprepared for the real environment," says Brownlee. Confronted suddenly by parents, "they feel defensive and don't want to hear questions." Unfortunately, parents tend not to make allowances for callow teachers. "If someone is new within our walls," says St. Ives?based Howard, "they virtually have to prove themselves to parents. Teacher bashing is one thing, but young-teacher bashing is something else. Parents will put the pressure on to make sure their child gets...
...Anne. "'because he talks all the time, can't follow instructions and hasn't completed a single task.'" Other parents consult child psychologists, speech and music therapists and sundry other specialists, desperate to unlock their child's potential. "Sorry," says Anne, "no therapist can fix an average IQ." Parents tend to retreat a little once their child reaches high school, though subject choices in the senior years can fire them up again. "It's often dads who will be absolutely determined that their daughter do (advanced) maths," says Vicki Waters, principal of St. Margaret's Anglican Girls School in Brisbane...
...Asian American’ encompasses so many different ethnic groups that you can’t just blanket all the groups and assume everyone is equal,” said Sarah L. Paiji ’06, co-president of the AAA. “Southeast Asians generally tend to be more socioeconomically disadvantaged...