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...that takes in around 10% of the roughly 140,000 immigrants to France each year. Yet the school has largely achieved the goal, so elusive for France as a whole, of creating harmony from diversity. "Saint-Denis may be the biggest melting pot in the world today, and we reflect that diversity of ethnicities and faith among our students and teachers," says school director Gérard Héloir. He says that the school is not out to create an institutional form of multiculturalism, but simply to help students integrate into wider French society. "We provide a setting where...
...grade, and one for sixth through eighth grade. The proposal, while earning the consent of some, inspired opposition from other members, who felt that the standardization compromised teachers’ abilities to more accurately depict each child’s progress and accomplishments. “Report cards should reflect what’s going on in the classroom, not the standards,” said Walser. “We have the MCAS [Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System] to test kids on standards.” —Staff writer William M. Goldsmith can be reached at wgoldsm@fas.harvard.edu...
...Those extremes reflect his own life. In the relatively free and wildly fertile 1920s, Filonov's reputation and artistic authority grew rapidly. He started lecturing and publishing theoretical works, and in 1925 he launched the Analytical Art School in Leningrad. Under Filonov's guidance, some of his students presented an exhibition of analytical art in April 1927, and designed sets and costumes for a Leningrad performance of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General...
...opposite of a good life. A careful reading of cases like these will show that, pace Tolstoy and the traditional model that he assumed, it is not only every bad life but every good life too that is remarkable in its own peculiar way. The student who learns to reflect thoughtfully on a wide range of such cases, and who learns to pursue his or her own life in the light of such reflection, will have begun to develop the tools necessary for aspiring to one of the good lives available...
...been able to choose the president, I would have chosen Elena, but that comment does not reflect negatively in any way on Drew Faust, whom I genuinely expect to be excellent,” said Fallon, who said he does not know Faust personally...