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Aspen Education Group is an American company that provides controversial therapeutic interventions for adolescents and young adults, including wilderness therapy programs, residential treatment centers, therapeutic boarding schools, and weight loss programs, which have been accused of torture and abuse.
Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez (December 31, 1930 – March 30, 2010) was a Bolivian-American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos.
Rancho Buena Vista High School or "RBV" is a California Distinguished School and International Baccalaureate Organization World School, located in Vista, California. [2] In the 1990–1991 and 1994–1995 school years Rancho Buena Vista High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, [3] the highest award an American school can ...
Dominguez and Vélez de Escalante noted in their journal that the Native American name for this river suggested it was the same river they had named Buenaventura. They expressed doubts it was the same river because had it been so, it was substantially smaller downstream than it had been upstream--the opposite of the normal pattern.
"I blew it." Dane Cook says he was just a few jokes away from being cast in Saturday Night Live. "On my way to my audition at SNL, I had a full-on panic attack," Cook said on a recent episode of ...
James Kennedy appears to no longer have plans to perform in Las Vegas in the new year.. The DJ, who had three shows slated in January at the famous LIV Nightclub in the Fontainebleau hotel ...
The NYPD and FBI have put up a total reward of $60,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Brian Thompson's killer. Who gets that cash?
Jorge Volpi (full name Jorge Volpi Escalante, born July 10, 1968) [1] [2] is a Mexican novelist and essayist, best known for his novels such as In Search of Klingsor (En busca de Klingsor).