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Finally, the educational benefits of technology also remain in dispute. There is still little proof that new devices yield lasting improvements in learning. Many studies purport to find such gains. But most of them can be explained on the grounds that students using computers were temporarily motivated by the sheer novelty of the machines or that more effort and better teaching went into the computerized courses than were devoted to the conventional classes with which they were compared. Thus, the learning improvements that early investigators reported form computer-assisted instruction shrank to nothing when the same teacher taught both...
Given the obstacles the script presents, this in itself is a commendable effort. Though the play does purport to concern itself with the plight of Miss Julie (Andrea Dishy) and her servant (Dean Norris), its heavily Marxist language and tone often undercut the development of the characters as individuals. Moreover, while many of Strindberg's speeches are poetic and inspirational, much of the script is repetitious. The virtual absence of any physical action, coupled with a cast of only three characters, makes for a dangerously static 90 minutes if director and cast aren't careful...
...ethnocentrism in self-proclaimed pluralistic societies--as both Harvard and America purport to be--however, should not be tolerated as a guiding principle. Whether through apathy or conscious choice, most Harvard students and administrators have done just this. In so doing, they have insulted minority students by denying the legitimacy of their cultures...
...Gibson and the superb English character actor Anthony Hopkins cannot sustain this reinterpretation of the well-known Mutiny on the Bounty saga. The Bounty reflects a prevalent new twist in the remake trend, seen earlier this spring in Greystoke, the latest turn to the Tatzan story. Both films purport to be more than mere copies of old films by adding new insights to the traditional story-lines they are based on. But as in Greystoke, and now in The Bounty, the movie-makers grandiose visions of creating new epics fall flat, because in reworking old stories, they have lost...
Fried: Well, Richard, when you speak of justice, then that suggests that people should be on a faculty at a major university because a group they purport to represent, and that representation is itself a very troublesome and dubious notion, but a group that they purport to represent is owed, as it were, a certain proportion of seats It's the United Nations conception of a university...