About Amanda Stevens

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Stories by Amanda

	Teacher sets high standards, and students live up to them By Tresha Charles, 7, Ryan Neal, , Amanda Stevens, When an autistic girl came to a new school, she had never spoken in her life. Despite her silence and isolation, she chose to say her first words there. They were "I love you." And they were directed at her teacher, Marva Collins. Collins has since joined the vanguard of education with her faith in children's innate ability to learn. Twenty years ago, Collins founded the Westside Preparatory S
	It's a dirty job, but Zooteens volunteer to do it By Amber Morgan, , Amanda Stevens, WANTED: Responsible teen-agers with a passion for animals and cleaning to work at the Indianapolis Zoo. Must be available at least once a week. Couch potatoes need not apply. If interested, call Alisa Pfleider, Zooteen coordinator. Every year the Indianapolis Zoo hires 75 teens from the ages of 14 to 18 to be Zooteens. We talked with five Zooteens. Aaron Crawford, 15, who works in the Waters
	From Sea to Shining Sea By Amanda Stevens, , Anne Coffey, 13 From Sea to Shining Sea Compiler: Amy L. Cohn. Publisher: Scholastic. Pages: 400. Cost: $29.95. When some kids think about history, they see dark dusty events that happened long ago to people they don't know. When other kids think about history, they see an opportunity to learn about the mistakes of the past so they won't make them in the future. Amy Cohn, compiler of a new book for kids, t