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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...
...when Irons brought him other names, and she was upset when he did not even apply to other colleges. As the acceptance period went by, and summer was half gone, he still had not heard from his school of choice, and Irons says she had visions of her prize pupil not entering college that year. Clinton says he was not worried because the University of Arkansas took any student with decent grades; he had long assumed he would be going there, where Fulbright had been the college president before going to Washington. Clinton had become familiar with Fayetteville, the Ozark...
Over the next two years, the team will design an ambitious core curriculum, which will assume that today's high school education could be completed by a Whittle pupil by the age of 12. The first schools will initially accept children only from three months to six years of age. With each succeeding year, another class can be added, as the system grows along with its first generation of students. Whittle is leaning toward a "campus" approach for the schools, with all grades (including day-care facilities) located at the same site. Working parents are to be offered flexible class...
...paintings now agreed to be indubitably by the master -- the finest "pure" Rembrandt show in memory. The second consists of a dozen "Rembrandts" now assigned to artists who worked with him; each of these is shown with two or three other paintings known to be by that pupil. In all, it is a wonderfully illuminating show, and it makes an unanswerable case for purifying the Rembrandt canon -- without touching a third category, that of deliberate forgeries...
While high school graduation rates improved during that period, standardized test scores, per-pupil expenditures and teacher pay remain among the nation's worst...