Word: pupil
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...dividend from such bureaucratic cuts, to be sent to individual school districts, may not necessarily aid public education. Several studies have indicated that educational performance doesn't always improve as more money is spent on each pupil...
There are troubling touches of xenophobia at Dzerzhinsky. "I don't think it's right when the Vietnamese here get so many motorcycles and we don't have any left to buy," says one pupil, prompting exclamations of "Fidschi!", a derogatory term for Vietnamese guest workers, from the back of the room. No one seems to know that the Vietnamese, under an agreement between East Berlin and Hanoi, get half their wages in the form of goods, including motorcycles and bikes, which they can ship to their families back home...
Although teachers who have used Kumon are generally enthusiastic about the results, a few question the value of the repetitious system, with its heavy emphasis on the mechanics of math. Some are unconvinced that test-score increases are attributable to Kumon, while others object to the $45-a-pupil annual cost. Shirley Frye, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, takes a balanced view. "Of course there is no panacea for teaching math," she says. "We are looking for all of the methods that will help make students successful." Kumon certainly seems to be one of them...
...gave out his office key to students who needed a quiet place to study at night. And nowadays he goes to heroic efforts to keep in close touch with kids he got to know. Dan Porterfield, an ex-pupil, recalls that in 1983, when Healy had a heart attack followed by a triple-bypass operation, he and a friend drove to New York to visit him. Over a nurse's protest, Healy asked to see them briefly. He was in a welter of tubes and looked ashen. "I felt that even then he was teaching us," says Porterfield, "trying...
...October 10, 1931 editoral in The Harvard Crimson said, "it is hardly necessary to state that a personable tutor, one who has the ability to interest his individual pupil, will develop into a more human, more understanding professor, than a young Ph.D. who has advanced to the stage of an occasional lecturer, but who cares only for his own scholastic advancement...