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...explanatory text, while Duke allows users to position their cursors in a spot representing a location on campus and, using the arrow keys, see views from every direction. Other schools offer multimedia extravaganzas. The University of Miami has streaming video of classes in session, student testimonials and rousing orchestral background music...
...independent college counselor, has been videotaping college tours since 1987. He has a library of 350 schools, which he updates about every five years; the tapes are $15 each. Though colleges send out their own videotapes, Kramon's videos, most of which last about an hour, have no background music or slick editing. "It's like your father took a tour and videotaped it," he says, which is why the camera tends to wobble as he follows the student tour guides. But Kramon's tapes offer a verisimilitude that schools may not appreciate. Rather than focus on students contemplating Plato...
Murray says that she did not feel alienated because of her background, although she realized that gossip traveled quickly...
...goal of having everyone meet the new higher standards is within reach. Most importantly, the results to date show that any kind of student, from any background or ethnicity can achieve the standard if the learning conditions are right. In fact, an overwhelming majority of students (90 percent), representing virtually all sub-categories in the first class, the class of 2003, have already attained the standard in both English and Math. This demonstrates that the standard is reasonable and well within the reach of all of our students. They are not prevented from attaining this standard by virtue of their...
...plays Olivia’s handmaiden Maria, steals the comic scenes from both of them with her commanding portrayal of the wench Maria. Oatey’s Maria is playful and clever, sassy and smart and always commands the stage even when she’s just in the background reacting with bemused facial expressions. The actress does double duty, as she also plays Sebastian...