"The more kids that are playing, the more people take notice," said Marley Kaplan, president and chief executive of Chess in the Schools in New York City, whose program has reached a half-million children in high-poverty schools since 1986.
Many also have commented on the negative double entendre of the word 'cougar.'" Kearns High School is one of the schools in the district whose mascot is already the cougar -- and Bill Cosper, Kearns football coach and athletic director, said he's baffled by the decision.
Paul Klee (in 1921) and Kandinsky (in 1922) gravitated to the Bauhaus, the school in Germany whose work at Weimar and later at Dessau deeply influenced architecture and design as well as basic teaching.
And also the teachers," said Karin Keysselitz, the mother of a child at the school in Haltern, whose son was taught by one of the teachers killed in the crash.
"The last I checked, there are no Republican kids and Democratic kids," said David Levin, co-founder of the Knowledge is Power Program, the school in Houston whose students were spotlighted Monday at the convention.
In contrast to these wild and woolly Athenian doctrines and practices, Praechter saw the Alexandrian school, in whose commentaries such doctrines do not figure prominently, as more restrained, rational, respectable; they were sober interpreters of Aristotle and had a doctrine much more easily reconcilable with the strong Christian cult of Alexandria.
An American born student in one of the schools in the town where I live, whose father is a naturalized American of Mexican origin, has been harassed by some of his peers who have indicated that they hope one of the candidates wins, so we build a wall and he has to 'go back to his country'.
When he does take a stand on some of them, he reveals that he's from the oldest of the old schools in Massachusetts, whose 1950s-era divorce laws (Dad works; Mom bakes cookies) are both archaic and litigation-heavy.
"It was an unrealistic deadline," said Ms. Milliner, who graduated from the school in 1984, and whose daughter, Averi Hill, is in third grade there.
There are plenty of people who've been to some of the finest schools in Europe whose job it is to hand out name tags at conferences until they can work their way up the ladder.
"You will now struggle to find a teacher younger than 40 in Portugal," said João Jaime Pires, 57, the director of Camões high school, one of the most prestigious schools in Lisbon, whose alumni include José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission.
