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Penn to Develop First Head Start Curriculum
PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education are developing a first-ever integrated curriculum for preschoolers in Head Start classrooms across the country. It will encompass basic skills needed for reading and mathematics as well as both school- and social-readiness skills.The project will be the first effort by U.S. educators to help disadvantaged children overcome academic challenges that can plague them for their entire academic careers.
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A MacArthur for nurse-scholar
A School of Nursing professor who continues to practice what she teaches has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship. Sarah Kagan, associate professor of gerontological nursing and an advanced practice nurse at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, is one of 24 MacArthur Fellows for 2003. The so-called “genius award” comes with a five-year, $500,000 no-strings-attached grant to allow recipients maximum creative freedom.
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Speakers agree society profits from nonprofit work
The great majority of Wharton School graduates go on to lucrative careers in private industry or financial services, where they spend their careers figuring out how to maximize profit for shareholders. More than 100 students jammed into a Steinberg-Dietrich Hall lecture room Oct. 2 to hear professionals from the private and nonprofit sectors, including four Wharton graduates, discuss how they maximize profit for society as a whole.
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SimTeeth, real training
Dental students know that one of the integral parts of their training is sharpening psychomotor skills. Now, a new computerized teaching method helps future dentists become proficient at two times the rate of students taught with conventional methods. This success rate brings a smile to Judith Buchanan’s face.
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Space-saving automobiles
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Out and About: The moral of his story: Movies can teach
Can amoral Hollywood really provide moral instruction to those of us sitting in the dark? Robert Cort C’68,G’70,WG’74, the producer of 52 films, including “Three Men and a Baby” and the soon-to-be-released “Against the Ropes” starring Meg Ryan, not only thinks so, he’s written a novel, titled “Action” (Random House, 2003), that proves it. “We who make movies have a role and a responsibility,” he explained in a telephone interview. “Today, we are in a fallow creative period. We are not making movies that provide emotional substance.”
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Campus Buzz
The media circus comes to campus: Campus early risers on Friday, Oct. 3, who made their way to College Green got to witness a bona fide Media Event—the live broadcast of “Fox & Friends,” the Fox News Channel’s morning show.
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The moral of his story: Movies can teach
Can amoral Hollywood really provide moral instruction to those of us sitting in the dark? Robert Cort C’68,G’70,WG’74, the producer of 52 films, including “Three Men and a Baby” and the soon-to-be-released “Against the Ropes” starring Meg Ryan, not only thinks so, he’s written a novel, titled “Action” (Random House, 2003), that proves it. “We who make movies have a role and a responsibility,” he explained in a telephone interview. “Today, we are in a fallow creative period. We are not making movies that provide emotional substance.”
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Corporate cash has up, down sides
Should universities tack on advertising logos to their sports teams’ shirts, just so they can make millions of dollars in revenue? Should schools accept all unrestricted donations from companies to benefit research? How many classes should universities offer online? These are tough questions, and as such, present tough choices for universities, said Derek Bok, president emeritus of Harvard University. Bok spoke at a Graduate School of Education-sponsored lecture Oct. 2 about “The Commercialization of Higher Education.”
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Street and Katz try to sway student voters
Adding to an already divisive campaign, Democratic Mayor John Street and Republican challenger Sam Katz squared off at Irvine Auditorium Oct. 1. Though the event was promoted as a nonpartisan, educational forum, the crowd appeared to be one-sided, vociferously cheering the challenger and raining disapproval on the incumbent. Street, slated to speak first, was 20 minutes late. Though each candidate was scheduled to deliver a speech for 15 minutes and then answer questions, Street spoke for less than 10 minutes.