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...country cannot afford to continue down the failed path of the past. From 1960 to 1995 average per-pupil spending in U.S. public schools rose 212 percent in real (i.e. inflation-adjusted) dollars. Yet for all of this additional spending, most agree that the quality of public education is growing ever worse. Test scores and national ranking against other countries' students have declined, and in a society that is very much divided in those who can read and those who cannot, 77 percent of children in urban high-poverty schools are reading "below basic" on the National Assessment of Educational...
...their world domination of the straight-to-video shelf, there's been a profound lack of screwed-up teen heartthrobs. But BRAD RENFRO, 18, appears ready to step up. Last week Renfro, who made his debut in The Client in 1994 and has since starred in Sleepers and Apt Pupil, was charged with grand theft after he and an accomplice allegedly tried to steal a 45-ft. yacht from a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., marina. They might have got away with it had they only untied the dock lines. Police are investigating whether the duo was under the influence of drugs...
When Woods phoned his coach, Butch Harmon, after the 1997 Masters and told him he wanted to rebuild his swing, Harmon was confident his star pupil could pull it off. But he cautioned that results wouldn't come overnight--that Woods would have to pump more iron to get stronger, especially in his forearms; that it would take months to groove the new swing; that his tournament performance would get worse before it got better. Both men were aware of how such an apparent slump would be depicted by some golf commentators and fellow pros jealous of Woods' early success...
...mean more bureaucracy," he says. Draper's polls show that an across-the-board voucher has more chance of passage. Indeed, Bishop Charles Blake, of the West Angeles Church of God in Christ, where Draper met with pastors, endorses the measure, which would be a boon to his 230-pupil Christian academy. But the Rev. Cecil Murray of the First African Methodist Church, fears "it would siphon off people of privilege [from public schools] and subsidize that siphoning." Families of the more than 600,000 California children already in private school would be eligible for an estimated $2.4 billion...
...strategy seems to have paid off. The district is accredited again. The hallways are clean and orderly, and a gleaming new Macintosh computer sits atop one of every three desks. Teachers can say their classes are manageable (17 kids per teacher) and that spending, at about $8,000 per pupil, rivals that of some of Wellston's more affluent neighboring districts. But my father has become convinced that all these efforts are never going to be enough. He believes what students in Wellston need is nothing less than a "fortress," a boarding "academy" that can insulate them from their...