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...enrollment has increased 35% a year for the past four years, to 1,800 students. At least 25% are either athletes or child entertainers. Educators are split on the merits of such schools. Paul Orehovec, an enrollment officer for the University of Miami, admits, "I was somewhat of a skeptic. But when I looked into their programs and accreditation, I was excited. umohs is the first online school to be granted membership in the National Honor Society." Kevin Roy, Elite's director of education, sees pitfalls and potential in virtual schools. "You will never have that wonderful teacher who inspires...
...enrollment has increased 35% a year for the past four years, to 1,800 students. At least 25% are either athletes or child entertainers. Educators are split on the merits of such schools. Paul Orehovec, an enrollment officer for the University of Miami, admits, "I was somewhat of a skeptic. But when I looked into their programs and accreditation, I was excited. UMOHS is the first online school to be granted membership in the National Honor Society." Kevin Roy, Elite's director of education, sees pitfalls and potential in virtual schools. "You will never have that wonderful teacher who inspires...
...only directly elected body, but was hardly welcomed by those who want to keep power in national capitals. "It's wrong that the Parliament should put itself in a position of being more important than the member states," says Jonathan Evans, head of the Euro-skeptic British Conservative M.E.P.s. Evans volunteered that it had been "tempting" to oppose the Commission for the sheer partisan joy of voting against British nominee Peter Mandelson, one of the architects of New Labour's victories, who is slated to become the Commissioner for Trade. Yet on this issue at least, Evans and Mandelson found...
...skeptic in me still thinks that youth turnout won’t be spectacular in November, despite P. Diddy’s celebrity-studded jet tour. But it will be better than before. And all it took was four years of a radical right-winger in the White House...
...Brussels labyrinth, Mandelson should be good at pushing Blair's brand of reform - less regulation and more transparency. But Blair's biggest European problem is at home: the referendum he has promised on the E.U. constitution, likely to be held no sooner than 2006. Britain's highly Euro-skeptic voters will make this a seriously uphill fight, and one of Mandelson's key jobs will be to help lead it. Opponents of the constitution say: Bring him on. "Who better to put the case for the European constitution than a discredited politician whose name is a byword for lies...