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College presidents of today grew up in long-lost era of unstructured time and imaginative outdoor play. Regina Toman, dean of students at Nebraska Methodist College in Omaha, is writing her dissertation at the University of Nebraska about the formative experiences of five women presidents (identified by pseudonyms). The idea of career paths within the university followed from involvement in a professional organization, with support from boosters and her preference for embracing change.

Albers presents an interview with Martin Gardner, a columnist for the publication Scientific American. Among others, Gardner talks about how he writes articles for The Sphinx, a magazine devoted to magic, when he was still in highschool.

Two first-grade teachers and a university researcher study children’s inquiry-oriented responses to literature to better understand how children’s experiences during read-alouds (and in related, later conversations) help them enlist others in their efforts to make sense of race.The authors argue teachers should be making spaces for children’s curiosities about race, and teachers should be inquirers alongside children as they make meaning of complex issues of diversity.

Recognizes the essential role parents play in teaching and learning, the importance of developing both compassion and intelligence, and a shared responsibility for creating a more equitable world. Focuses on two sets of written conversations that parents and children created after reading texts about civil rights and human rights. (SG)

Yet, there remains a spark to these children, a hoping and a caring and a yearning that, frankly, transcend common sense. \"They're not dumb by any means,\" Mrs. [Helen Fallon] insisted, bragging how one of her 5-year-old special education students reads at first-grade level. \"They're special children,\" she declared. These special children -- all disabled emotionally, in learning or in speech -- walk a precarious tightrope. So much is going against them. \"If we don't get them now and teach them now, they're lost,\" said Mrs. Fallon, a teacher in city schools for 31 years. \"My personal mission is helping children feel good about themselves,\" said Ms. [Christine Campbell], who says she grew up disliking being black, living in Harlem and, most of all, being Christine Campbell.

\"She held on to my leg and wouldn't let go,\" [Kimberley Leduc-Paradis] said. \"She didn't want to get on the bus. And there was a lot of crying, with big, sad eyes in the window of the bus.\" Both [William W. Woodruff] and [Martin H. Young] advise parents to get involved immediately when a child begins to exhibit anxiety about school. Meet with the child's teacher to discuss the problem. Leduc-Paradis believes that Mary's reluctance hasn't completely disappeared and there are some differences between kindergarten and first grade. Last year, Mary took her blanket with her to kindergarten.

Gene Marcial, noted Business Week columnist and perhaps the ultimate Wall Street Insider, has written a tell-all book about the realities of business as usual on the Street. A veteran of two decades of behind the scenes Wall Street reporting, he paints a picture of the entire financial system pervaded by avarice, corruption and irresistible temptation.