People miss the point when they believe that most students can be content to skip over the effervescent face-to-face dimensions of college life, whether to hit fast-forward on their careers or to sit in virtual classrooms.

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Rather, the movement looks for "a substantial set of traits that make them do amazing things in the classrooms and take kids and put them on a path to a much higher life opportunity, " Kumar says.

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