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...hands with the author and obtain signed copies of the book. Readers may particularly enjoy a scholarly topic or a genre of writing. Sometimes readers are attracted by celebrity, as was the case when Anne Heche came to WordsWorth Books this September. Other people come simply because they are avid readers who want exposure to a wide range of topics. In the case of poetry, the audience often comes to hear the poem read with the voice of the poet, with the effects that the poet intended. WordsWorth Books, Grolier Poetry Shop and the Harvard Book Store all have...
Swanson has since brought her program, which she named AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), to more than 1,200 schools across the country. Today it is widely regarded as one of the most effective educational reforms ever created by a classroom teacher. This year more than 65,000 students in 21 states are in AVID, and Swanson, who in 1986 left the classroom to run the program full time, leads a team that trains nearly 9,000 teachers a year. The results have been extraordinary. Since 1980, more than 93% of AVID graduates (70% of whom were poor enough...
Swanson's philosophy is simple: raise expectations and then give students the support they need to meet them. AVID targets the kids most educational crusaders ignore--the ones in the middle, coasting by with Cs and Ds, whose families don't expect them to do much beyond high school. Students must choose on their own to enroll (and thus demonstrate their commitment), and once they do, they are placed in their school's most accelerated classes. For one period each day they meet with their AVID instructor, who teaches them, in essence, how to learn--what kind of questions...
...jailed in 1964 along with Nelson Mandela, a fellow African National Congress leader; in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He was released from prison in 1987 and, seven years later, won a seat in Parliament in South Africa's first all-race elections. DIED. DIANA GOLDEN BROSNIHAN, 38, avid skier who lost a leg to cancer at age 12 but persevered and won a gold medal in disabled skiing at the 1988 Calgary Olympics; of cancer, in Providence, Rhode Island. Brosnihan persuaded the U.S. Ski Association to allow disabled skiers to compete against able-bodied skiers...
...master of the dot in French painting? Georges Seurat, most would answer. But there was at least one other: Seurat's friend and luminous fellow painter, Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac (1863-1935). Signac, an avid yachtsman, helped create the French Riviera as a subject for painting--and Saint-Tropez, where he settled from 1892 on, as a mecca for tourism. His pursuit of pure color sensation, the yellow of beaches and the purple of shade under the umbrella-pines, made his canvases radical in their time. Yet to a modern eye, his paradisiacal view of the world--a world...