Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Phase III deals with, among other things, developing a long-range pupil assignment policy and racially balancing the Kennedy and Roberts schools, two issues left unresolved by the second phase of the plan but essential to its ultimate success...
...city Office of Desegregation's plan, children will be assigned to schools according to a ten-step plan that takes into account parental preference, insures a degree of stability once assignment has been made and still provides a means for continued racial balance without continued juggling of pupil assignments...
...long-range pupil assignment plan assigns students who are new to the system by taking into account the amount of space available in the school a student chooses...
...deceptively human appearance" out of metal, wood, glass, wax and leather. This creature allegedly opened the door to Albertus' cell at the Dominican monastery in Cologne, asked visitors what they wanted and even engaged them in polite conversation. The end of the legend was that Albertus' celebrated pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the robot to pieces because he considered it demonic. The Swiss alchemist Paracelsus, who was himself considered rather demonic, gave lectures on the creation of a homunculus and even offered a recipe of ingredients, including human blood and putrefied semen. In 16th century Prague, too, the devout...
...maybe it never happened that way. There is more myth than fact to Alexander. Perhaps he was in reality a flocculating maniac (with such a mother, why not?), barely containable to his men, the bane of Hephaestion's existence, Aristotle's worst pupil, and so forth. Who will ever know? There is a sentence on the final wall of the exhibition: "The search continues . . ." It provides the exhibition's one hokey moment, and it is also misleading, suggesting as it does that a continuing search for Alexander will yield something. The tomb may be unearthed eventually...