Word: tesseract
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...often, though, Asian directors dip into the pool of cultural references created by the West and happily exploit them. Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool sets Macbeth in Bombay, with gangsters in the place of Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from a novel by Alex Garland and directed by Oxide Pang (who with his brother Danny made last year's Hong Kong thriller The Eye), has a femme fatale with leather skirt, gun, motorcycle, high cheekbones-all the noir accessories. Open your bedroom door and five tough Thais stand outside...
...Federation of Teachers. "EAI has come in and done so many things that have divided the community." In particular, educators express frustration with the cutbacks in special education--which the U.S. Department of Education is currently investigating at EAI schools in Baltimore--and with EAI's teaching program, called Tesseract. Named after a magical pathway in the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time, Tesseract stresses small classes and individualized lesson plans. But, says Joe Nathan, director of the Center for School Change at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, who turned down a chance...
...music on Headtravel is excellent and seems to improve with each new track. "Shell," by Nail, is the best groove on the album, mixing a throbbing beat with the best in atmospheric trance sounds, winds blowing, sudden bursts of melody and rainforest noises. "Tesseract," by Darin Marshall, and "Environment," by A New Consciousness, are also standouts, delicate, lyrical and incessantly danceable. Headtravel is highly recommended. Trance...
...Minnesota firm also instituted its teaching program, called "Tesseract," a name derived from a magical pathway in the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time. The program requires teachers to analyze each student's learning style and then devise an individualized plan and goals. It emphasizes parental involvement, the use of computers and continual encouragement. Posters bearing upbeat slogans abound in Tesseract schools: "Go for It!"; "Every Child Has Gifts and Talents...
Once again, there is little objective evidence, only personal speculation. David Bennett just stepped down as school superintendent in St. Paul to become president of Education Alternatives, the company that runs the Tesseract schools. It is easy to imagine that Bennett, a proponent of public-school open enrollment, would be a missionary for unrestricted Choice in his private- sector role. Not quite. "No matter how you dress up a voucher system," Bennett says, "the poverty kids will end up with the short end of the stick." In any game of educational musical chairs, someone has to lose. And almost certainly...