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Jonathan Kozol describes in his bestseller Savage Inequalities the differential treatment given to many children. He cities expenditures of $5,500 per pupil in the city of New York while that figure jumps to $11,000 in upper middle-class suburbs such as Great Neck and Manhasset. Some of the most affluent areas received as much as $15,000 for each of its students. Similar patterns exist in other cities...
...junior-high schools in Indiana, Kansas and Missouri. In five-year follow-up studies undertaken after they complete the 13-session program, graduates have been found to be 20% to 40% less likely than other students to have tried drugs or alcohol. The price: just $15 to $25 a pupil, including the cost of training teachers to conduct the project in their classrooms...
When Heinrich Neuhaus, the great piano teacher of Gilels and Richter, heard Ugorski play at the age of 17 he said, "Not talented as a pupil, does not absorb influences. But a gifted pianist." Ugorski worked his way up to an appointment as a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory. He worked there until 1990, when he finally emigrated to Germany...
When Heinrich Neuhaus the great piano teacher of Gilels and Richter, heard Ugorski play at the age of 17 he said, "Not talented as a pupil, does not absorb influences. But a gifted pianist." Ugorski worked his way up to an appointment as a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory. He worked there until 1990, when he finally emigrated to Germany...
...when Irons brought him other names, and she was upset when he did not even apply to other colleges. As the acceptance period went by, and summer was half gone, he still had not heard from his school of choice, and Irons says she had visions of her prize pupil not entering college that year. Clinton says he was not worried because the University of Arkansas took any student with decent grades; he had long assumed he would be going there, where Fulbright had been the college president before going to Washington. Clinton had become familiar with Fayetteville, the Ozark...