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...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, who logs close to 60 hours a week at Hand, thanks to after-school and summer programs, weekends at the computer lab and even dropping in for vaccinations...
Since Towns adopted e-learning in 1998, its middle-schoolers' scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills have risen nine percentile points. Attendance has improved, and disciplinary referrals to the principal's office are down by more than half. State assessments of their writing show Towns' eighth-graders scoring 16 points higher than the Georgia average...
...teachers urged him to find ways to buy computers for students as well. The federally funded Appalachian Regional Commission contributed nearly 80% of the $500,000 cost of wiring the middle school. Smith raised the rest from local donations. Towns decided to start by wiring the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders because, Smith says, "they want to know everything and do everything." Smith hopes that by 2002, every high school student will also have a laptop...
Silvio Berlusconi used to say he loved Sabina Guzzanti's TV impersonations of him. He may have changed his mind after her last couple of outings on the political satire show L'Ottavo Nano (The Eighth Dwarf). Guzzanti's version of the media mogul-turned-politician is dismissive of immigrants, throws bricks at passersby, boasts of having bought Italian democracy and, naturally, gets a custard pie in his face. The 37-year-old Guzzanti says her satire is "a way of showing people they're not alone in noticing the lack of logic in Italian politics." She has made...
Despite outstanding efforts from co-captains John Kraay and Chris Clever, the Crimson placed eighth at Outdoor Heps this weekend for the second consecutive season...