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...year University of Miami Online High School (UMOHS), a virtual school that caters to athletes. "The online school gives me the flexibility I need," says Hunt. "The workload is the same, but I can do it anywhere. It's nicer to ask a question face-to-face with a teacher, but in some ways it prepares me better for college because I have to be more independent." A year ago, Hunt's world junior ranking was 886; now it's 110. Virtual high schools, which allow students to take classes via PC, have emerged as an increasingly popular education alternative...
...have asked a number of VES faculty how they teach art, and have heard similar answers from painters and filmmakers alike. I hear two shared aims: to show students the options provided to them by the materials they use and urge them to find their own creative direction. Every teacher I spoke to agreed with recently tenured Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Stephen Prina that the mastery of technique is not an end in itself. Instead, they argue that technique must be put to the service of an individual’s ideas. Teaching students to explore their personal...
...experiences have shown that this intuitive and seductive method can also be very successful. In my first painting class, my teacher employed this method, asking me to loosen my grip on the brush so that the medium could help to clarify my ideas. As the son of first generation Indian immigrants unsure of their place in American culture, art-making in this liberated manner provided me with powerful tools for self-discovery. I made experimental videos on interracial adoption, compared the Mogul miniature tradition with Rothko and was compelled to carry my insights abroad to spend a summer in India...
...Abbate is a splendid teacher and scholar who will bring real strength to Harvard’s studies in the arts,” University President Lawrence H. Summers said in the release...
Neal Klinman, a teacher at Morse elementary, was able to take his fourth grade class to a performance of Ramona Quimby at Wheelock Family Theater...