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Beyond such homely practicality lies a reawakened national concern for some faded educational verities, among them the close teacher-pupil contact that was much in evidence last week at Lennep. There, beneath pictures of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Carol Sevalstad, 33, glided through the mellow buzz of a dozen children in six grades. When Lee Cavender tripped over his second-grade arithmetic game on Lennep's computer, Sevalstad untangled him. Then she turned to a Lilliputian table where two first graders were hard at their reading. "I want to spend a lot of time on reading with the first...
MARRIED. MARY KAY LETOURNEAU, 43, former elementary school teacher who served 7 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to the second-degree child rape of her former sixth-grade student, despite claims from both that they were in love; to VILI FUALAAU, 22, the ex-pupil, with whom she has two children; at a winery in Woodinville, Wash...
...Child is not just about money, most experts agree. The Federal Government pays only about 8% of schooling costs. So changing the federal contibution has only so much impact. In fact, money--from any source--is not a panacea. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. has tripled per-pupil spending in constant dollars, to roughly $10,800 a child, more than almost any other nation. And yet it gets average or below-average results compared with other First World countries...
...smile when the opposition blew a big lead. He was not much on irony; that his base-stealing records were surpassed by three black men, Wills, Lou Brock and Rickey Henderson, would not have amused him. Nor did he appreciate a generous anecdote told about him by a batting pupil. In 1960 Lefty O'Doul was asked, "What do you think Cobb would hit today?" The old outfielder guessed, "Oh, maybe .340." Then why do you say Cobb was so great when he could only hit .340 with this lively ball? O'Doul thought about it. "Well, you have...
...most unusual gift, if not his largest, was a guarantee of college tuition for 61 pupils at P.S. 121. Lang was making a sentimental visit to his old school, and in the middle of what he recalls as a paralyzingly dull, rehearsed speech to the graduating sixth grade, the inspiration came to him. Suddenly he broke off and told the astounded youngsters that he would give them each $2,000 toward college tuition, with more where that came from, if they stuck with their books and finished school. Later he followed with a letter to every pupil, declaring "I will...