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Audrey M. Garvin, a counselor at the AmericanSchool for the Deaf (ASD), which is the oldestU.S. school for deaf students, says that schoolsthat cater specifically to deaf students are ableto offer a sense of community and provide betterservices than public schools do on an individualbasis...
...acknowledges that ASD may not be thebest place for strong students, as many of theschool's enrollees are placed there after failingto succeed in public schools. In such cases,Garvin says the goal of correcting those student's"phenomenal gaps" in education is the school'smost pressing concern...
...Garvin says that ASD is sometimes unable toprovide all of the educational opportunities thata potential Harvard student might expect...
Before 1995, there was no way to do what Garvin is doing. Different HBS divisions utilized six different and incompatible e-mail systems and there were more than 75 faculty configurations...
...went from a fairly ad hoc environment to a completely networked environment," Garvin said of the transition...