Word: pupil
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...parents may be forgiven for viewing their children as miracles, but none more so than Betsy and Leonard Jernigan Jr. One day when their baby Elizabeth was about four months old, her right eyelid began to weaken a bit; the pupil seemed slow to respond to light. Such small signs, and they came and went; she seemed happy and healthy, so her parents expected that the problem would clear up by itself...
...this is despite the fact that education is the biggest line item in most state budgets. Indeed, total U.S. spending on education in 1994 was estimated at $484 billion, almost double the $250 billion spent on defense. But of the average $5,300 spent per pupil each year, some experts estimate that less than half goes into the classroom. The rest goes to such important auxiliary services as athletic coaching and lunch programs--but also to the bureaucracy that both supports and entangles the nation's school system. ``What does this say about our priorities?'' asks Chester E. Finn...
...diverse as the members of America's 64.5 million-strong student body--privatization, home schooling and video instruction. While education remains largely a local matter, with only 7% of funding coming from the Federal Government, a debate is raging over the need to impose national standards whereby every pupil at a given level must master the same body of knowledge and pass the same set of tests. The education act signed by President Clinton last March offers incentives to the states to develop uniform standards for students; it also promotes teacher training and parental involvement. But if there...
...retardation. Potter knew that almost all Down patients who live long enough eventually develop brain lesions identical to those detected in autopsies of Alzheimer's sufferers. By scouring the scientific literature, he learned that people with Down syndrome are very sensitive to tropicamide, the drug used to dilate the pupil of the eye. Potter then approached Leonard Scinto, a neuroscientist now at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, about the possibility of using the drug to spot Alzheimer...
...lesson in a course on the history of philosophy. At first by letter and then in person, a mysterious guru who calls himself Alberto Knox guides Sophie through the ideas of great thinkers, from the pre-Socratics to Jean-Paul Sartre. Philosophy's quest for truth, Knox tells his pupil, "resembles a detective story...