Distance learning via the Internet offers more intriguing possibilities that could lower costs and increase access, but there is little evidence that such instruction will improve student achievement, or that it can convey such subtler values as learning to live and work together with a diverse set of classmates.
Her classmates were a diverse bunch of young people from fields including design, the performing arts and fashion.
We recruited five of our son's classmates -- a diverse collection -- and you know what, over three years, three of them dropped out, the girls.
Hundreds of pre-teen and teenage girls all in one place can be overwhelming, if not downright scary, and of course it's good for young people to learn with and from classmates who are diverse in all ways -- including across gender lines.
Diversity is, instead, diverse.
Cooking side by side for nine months, my classmates and I learned how diverse our backgrounds were.
I have quickly realised that even aside from the coursework, I am most excited about learning from classmates who come from such diverse backgrounds, both culturally and professionally.
But Ms. Goodman, whose great-grandfather founded Bergdorf Goodman, said the sliding scale was intended to ensure a diverse student body without singling out "scholarship students" from their wealthier classmates.
BARRY FERTEL, a New Rochelle board member who was Mr. Levy's classmate at the Bronx High School of Science, said: "We are a diverse district and we do very well meeting our students' needs.
A Harvard Law classmate of the President's, he had managed to remain a popular Congressman with racially diverse support in a deep Southern state.
