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Public schools would, indeed, suffer; lower funding would lead to fewer books and teachers, while the number of overpaid administrators would likely remain constant. However, in Milwaukee, alternative education programs provide better education than public schools. Moreover, they do so for between $2,500 and $3,000 per pupil compared to an average public school cost of over $5,000 per pupil. And with a voucher, just about any family in the nation can afford some form of private schooling...
...cases like these, I think of the teacher on The Simpsons who scolds one particularly pathetic pupil: "The children are right to laugh at you, Ralph." People are right to laugh at The Crimson--or be angry, or disgusted, depending on their mood. Still, in their indignation, people often dismiss the Harvard press as a nuisance, a hassle, an inconvenience. Since Harvard isn't the "real world," it's not so important to have a check on institutional power...
...perhaps still do. What you get for your 8 pounds is a walk through the main formal rooms: the Throne Room, the Picture Gallery, the Green, Blue and White drawing rooms, the best of which were designed by George IV's architect John Nash, and the worst by his pupil, Edward Blore. "Blore the bore," as he came to be known, took over the decoration of Buckingham Palace after Nash was dismissed by George IV's successor, William IV, for his "inexcusable irregularity and great negligence." Blore was a beacon of probity, but not of talent. His lack...
...night of wild sex with a former pupil (and, boy, does she teach him a thing or two!). She recharges an old romance with a fabulously wealthy financier. She eludes the entire Nassau County police department. And, oh, yes, she catches the killer. Isaacs' heroines are never the usual trophy wives (she can't make a silk purse out of a Coach bag); instead they are a prize greater than rubies. In the fight against women with skinny thighs and no love handles, they always win (hence the fantasy quality of Isaacs' fiction). Accents from Queens and Brooklyn may flavor...
...report recently released by a Cambridge public action group blasted the quality of the Cambridge public school system, saying that the high per-pupil spending in the system is straining the funding available while student performance declines...