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...More money. "The contrast in money spent per pupil in wealthy suburban and slum schools challenges the concept of equality of opportunity in American public education. The expenditure per pupil in the wealthy suburban school is as high as $1,000 per year. The expenditure in a big-city school is less than half that amount...
Emphasizing the need for increased funds to problem schools, Conant stated, "The contrast in money spent per pupil in wealthy surburban schools and in the slum schools challenges the concept of opportunity in American public education." The Negro student will benefit more from improved schools, he added, than from token integration across zoning lines...
...Sense of Drama. Like Crivelli. Man tegna, the son of a carpenter, studied under the strict Paduan master, Francesco Squarcione. He was such a precocious pupil that, at the age of 17, he got a commission to do a number of frescoes in Padua's Ovetari Chapel. From then on his future seemed secure. He married the daughter of the painter Jacopo Bellini; the Marchese Francesco Gonzaga made him a knight, and Lorenzo the Magnificent sang his praises...
...take Paul's advice to Timothy in his first letter to his young pupil (1 Timothy...
...give a tennis lesson to Jacqueline Kennedy. Mrs. Hoxie brusquely chivied Secret Service men into action ("What are all of you just lounging around for? Pick up a racket and start hitting some balls") but reserved her most pungent orders for the First Lady. Barked Teacher Hoxie to Pupil Kennedy: "Keep your hair out of your eyes and your eyes on the ball...