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...wrenching story - of a happy family riven by the teenage son's death - in acutely somber vignettes that avoid the seductions of sentimentality and melodrama. The Piano Teacher stirs up a tasty poison porridge of lusts and hatreds between a precocious pianist (Benoît Magimel) and his stern tutor (Isabelle Huppert); in chic, lurid images it suggests that teachers, perhaps all adults, try to express and exorcise their frustrations by dominating their charges. In coarser hands, this tale of obsession and self-mutilation could be ludicrous from the start; in these hands it is goofy only toward...
...article about the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), the Crimson reported that Former Assistant to both the Chair and the Head Tutor Kathleen Chaudhry said VES Finance Manager Karen Brown once wrote the department's budget when the department's chief administrator was absent and the chair was unwilling to take on the responsibility...
...students who attend CAL-Dows High School, situated just down the hall, are a bunch worth emulating. The older students juggle calculus and physiology classes with school trips to Spain and statewide jazz-band competitions. Some make time every day to tutor first-graders in math or reading. Among last year's graduates, 98% went on to college...
...public engagement in many schools is downright dismal, Hand has captured the attention--and the donations--of its neighbors by turning into an old-fashioned community center. Hand keeps the hours of a convenience store: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., open all but five weekdays a year. Senior citizens tutor teenagers, and preschoolers take computer classes here. Professors from the nearby University of South Carolina stop by to lecture students. The city council often meets in the school gymnasium. "Everybody comes here. It makes you think like, O.K., I can get into this too," says eighth-grader Frankie English...
...Each school that we have recognized as outstanding has found innovative ways to get parents more involved--but those schools often work against a strong headwind. In a poll conducted earlier this year by Public Agenda, a nonprofit research organization, 70% of parents said they had not volunteered to tutor or coach in the past two years, and 60% said they had not attended a single community event held at their child's school. In a U.S. Education Department survey in 1999, 1 in 4 parents said he or she does not attend parent-teacher conferences...