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...tilted in favor of the press -- but is less than certain of being vindicated. Often, a story that provokes a suit is legally defensible yet morally tainted by bias, animus or procedural lapses; the trial turns into a lesson in press ethics, with the reporter as the flustered pupil...
...biggest sparks for any relationship can come from shared interests. Isn't it logical that such commonality could be found between an instructor who teaches a particular course and a pupil with enthusiasm for the subject matter? Yet Harvard and other schools would prohibit teacher-student relationships from progressing outside the academic realm...
Jonathan Kozol describes in his bestseller Savage Inequalities the differential treatment given to many children. He cities expenditures of $5,500 per pupil in the city of New York while that figure jumps to $11,000 in upper middle-class suburbs such as Great Neck and Manhasset. Some of the most affluent areas received as much as $15,000 for each of its students. Similar patterns exist in other cities...
...junior-high schools in Indiana, Kansas and Missouri. In five-year follow-up studies undertaken after they complete the 13-session program, graduates have been found to be 20% to 40% less likely than other students to have tried drugs or alcohol. The price: just $15 to $25 a pupil, including the cost of training teachers to conduct the project in their classrooms...
When Heinrich Neuhaus the great piano teacher of Gilels and Richter, heard Ugorski play at the age of 17 he said, "Not talented as a pupil, does not absorb influences. But a gifted pianist." Ugorski worked his way up to an appointment as a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory. He worked there until 1990, when he finally emigrated to Germany...