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...special education--which the U.S. Department of Education is currently investigating at EAI schools in Baltimore--and with EAI's teaching program, called Tesseract. Named after a magical pathway in the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time, Tesseract stresses small classes and individualized lesson plans. But, says Joe Nathan, director of the Center for School Change at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, who turned down a chance to sit on EAI's board, "I'm not convinced they know a good deal about how to improve what happens between teachers and kids, and that...
...senior professorship status there, the teaching assignments are not onerous, you have a great deal of freedom, in effect your life has been much more integrated with a given academic field and you want to continue work with your graduate students," says Professor of Education and Social Structure Emeritus Nathan Glazer, who was a member of the FAS and Education School faculty...
Harvard (2-4, 0-0 Ivy) played events with No Boston University throughout the entire first half but the Terriers controlled practically the entire second half and won on a Nathan Chin goal with 21 left...
This lesson comes hard to 12-year-old Steven Lidz (Nathan Watt). His mother Selma (Andie MacDowell) is dying slowly, bravely, of cancer, and his father Sid (John Turturro) cannot offer him much consolation. In the best of times, Sid is a tense and cranky figure, obsessively working on impractical inventions. In these, the worst of times, he is mostly preoccupied with cursing God, fate and Selma's doctors. The kid badly needs a dose of chicken soup and diversion...
Diane Keaton's first fictional feature suggests that early, massive exposure to eccentricity can be the best possible preparation for the life that follows. This lesson comes hard to 12-year-old Steven Lidz (Nathan Watt), whose mother Selma (Andie MacDowell) is dying slowly and bravely of cancer. His cranky, obsessive father Sid (John Turturro) is of little consolation. It's up to Sid's kooky brothers Danny (Michael Richards of Seinfeld) and Arthur (Maury Chaykin) to get Steven safely through his first encounters with mortality and onrushing manhood. "Helped by terrific acting and Richard La Gravenese's wonderfully modulated...