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...life with her family, her life after banishment to a lonely cottage, and her afterlife. Moving back and forth through time, the play depicts Lucie’s birth in 1900 and childhood, during which she is tormented by her brother Henri (Chris R. Schleicher ’09) for being small and supposedly bringing bad luck to the family because of a birthmark. She grows up lonely, living with her brothers Henri and Edmond (Claudio Sopranzetti) after her parents and oldest brother...
...Development (o.e.c.d.) study showed that, when tested on their math skills, 15-year-old first-generation immigrants score on average more than one grade level behind their native peers - this despite surveys that show immigrants are more enthusiastic about school than nonimmigrants. Part of the reason, says Andreas Schleicher, head of analysis for the o.e.c.d.'s Directorate for Education, is that many countries put their immigrant students through the same system as everyone else. "Equality has to do with equality of outcomes, not with equality of input," he says. "Nordic countries are highly sensitive to this. Their question...
...there are at least five students from the same country in one district, they have the right to be taught in their native tongue. "And that is a very powerful way to have children value their own cultures, rather than just being confronted with complete novelty," says Schleicher. The effects are subtle but promising. While unemployment among foreign-born citizens in Sweden is still high (around 10%), it's lower than in Germany, France or Belgium. And the proportion of immigrants enrolled in Swedish universities is higher than it was five years...
...Haydenettes. The show was hosted by 1992 Olympic silver medalist Paul S. Wylie ’90. Other notable performers included 2006 Four Continents silver medalist ice dancers Morgan Matthews and Maxim Zavozin; 2006 Winter Olympic silver medalists Benjamin A. Agosto and Tanith J. L. Belbin; and Christopher R. Schleicher ’09, who skated with his younger sister Molly...
Some say management's choices don't make business sense. Randy Schleicher, 52, who lost his job as a network analyst, says he heard from someone still employed at Dell that the plant making computer portables was on hold for an hour because there wasn't enough tech help after the job cuts. At $11,000 a minute, he says, that would be an expensive delay...