Word: pupil
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...agreed to raise the state sales tax from 4% to 6% and to increase the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 25 cents to 75 cents. At the same time, they adopted the Governor's proposal to raise the minimum amount the state's schools must spend per pupil from...
...Odessa Baiul skates at a rink where the ice is often like spring mush. She shares a little room with her coach's younger daughter, her best friend. Her idol is Rudolf Nureyev, whose pictures adorn the walls. Zmievskaya says her prize pupil "doesn't know what a million dollars is. All she knows is that she needs 10 fantiki ((candy wrappers)) to buy an ice cream...
...narrates this film of his life, accompanied by a green fuzzy Martian (Nabil Shaban) who insists on engaging the precocious child in philosophical discussion. Together they travel to England and we watch Ludwig's intellectual development from an imaginative, over-stimulated youth into a sober, work-obsessed pupil of Bertrand Russell (Micheal Gough) and an awkward frequenter of the oh-so-intellectually fashionable Bloomsbury crowd, including the lovely Lady Ottoline Morrell (Tilda Swinton...
Public schools would, indeed, suffer; lower funding would lead to fewer books and teachers, while the number of overpaid administrators would likely remain constant. However, in Milwaukee, alternative education programs provide better education than public schools. Moreover, they do so for between $2,500 and $3,000 per pupil compared to an average public school cost of over $5,000 per pupil. And with a voucher, just about any family in the nation can afford some form of private schooling...
...cases like these, I think of the teacher on The Simpsons who scolds one particularly pathetic pupil: "The children are right to laugh at you, Ralph." People are right to laugh at The Crimson--or be angry, or disgusted, depending on their mood. Still, in their indignation, people often dismiss the Harvard press as a nuisance, a hassle, an inconvenience. Since Harvard isn't the "real world," it's not so important to have a check on institutional power...