![]() ![]() On the AP chemistry exam, minority students at SEM tied for first place in the state of the 23 SEM students who passed, 10 were minorities. With only 400 students, 113 passed the test in 2003 of those, 60 were Hispanic or African-American. It's even more remarkable considering how small the student body is. For two years in a row (20), SEM, one of DISD's court-mandated magnet high schools, had more minority students pass the advanced placement calculus exam than any other school in the nation. You may think you're hallucinating when you see it, but even drugs aren't this good. In there, you'll find a single piece of wood that has been carved into dozens of individual warriors, horses and elephants, which stand on top of each other to form a near-solid mass. Walk through the origami swan hallway, and once you enter the shrine room, turn around and you'll see a door that looks off-limits to the general public. ![]() Keep your eyes peeled, as one of Dallas' most amazing pieces is tucked into the very far corner of the collection. The jade pieces here are mind-blowingly intricate, as are the dozens of royal decorations scattered through the building. Huge art mainstays like the DMA and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth do well to veil the money-hungry concrete jungle that is our fair town, but it's the beauty of smaller collections that makes us say, "Are we really in Dallas?" Case in point: the Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, whose focus on ancient works of the largest continent actually rivals a similar collection at the Louvre. ![]()
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