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...Fleck, who learned the banjo by moving to Nashville and mimicking the masters of the time, candidly discussed his lack of formal education. He admitted that his inability to read music sometimes limits the range of music he can play, but he also emphasized the advantages of his self-taught methods. By mimicking electric bass players, Fleck mapped scales on the banjo, allowing the instrument to play beyond the set intervals of bluegrass music. He claims he is proudest of the discoveries he made himself. Although Fleck is well versed in the traditional bluegrass music with which the banjo...
...Tequila and her stripper friends all want the same thing, then why are they fighting with each other for the attention of all these sleazy Jack Nicholson look-alikes? Clearly all is not well in the trailer park commune. My expos preceptor taught me how to ask questions that reveal the deeper meaning of a work. When Tila looks pensively into the camera toward the end of the video, is she criticizing the worth of this stripper utopia? Is she reflecting upon the hollowness of her exhibitionist lifestyle? Has she adopted a devil-may-care attitude with regard...
...that they may have to shutter their classrooms - and go back to school themselves - if they want to continue teaching their own kids. On Feb. 28, Judge H. Walter Croskey of the Second District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles ruled that children ages six to 18 may be taught only by credentialed teachers in public or private schools - or at home by Mom and Dad, but only if they have a teaching degree. Citing state law that goes back to the early 1950s, Croskey declared that "California courts have held that under provisions in the Education Code, parents...
...interests of their children's education. This outrageous ruling must be overturned by the courts and if the courts don't protect parents' rights then, as elected officials, we will." "It's kind of scary," says Julie Beth Lamb, an Oakdale, California, parent who, with no teaching credentials, has taught her four children for 15 years. "If that ruling is held up, this would make us one of the most restrictive states in the nation...
...Another campus that's reforming is Tokyo's Waseda University. Four years ago, Waseda launched a new School of International Liberal Studies as a testing ground for "enforced artificial internationalism," as Paul Snowden, the school's dean, describes it. All classes are taught in English. The school as a matter of policy recruits one-third of its students from overseas, from countries as far away as Iceland and Uganda. The strategy seems to be working. Since it opened, the program has seen enrollment grow at an annual average rate of 15%. "This school is dragging Waseda kicking and screaming into...